Hi Graeme.... On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:30, Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wrote a little stand-alone parse_elf() program, and lo-and-behold, the > outputs are identical. So, in theory, if bzImage contained a raw binary, it > could be decompressed directly to the target address. I find your experiment quite interesting. After looking at parse_elf (http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.1.4/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c#L276), I guess it could be codes introduced long time before objcopy support "binary" form. And since then is rarely touched again. But maybe it's left there in case there is a platform that doesn't have objcopy version that supports "binary" form conversion. So I think it's more about portability issue. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
