On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:58 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 10 May 2019 22:11:31 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said:
> > Suppose I have two kernels, one is A.B.C build by people Tom. And
> > the other is A.B.C build by Jerry. The source code have been deleted
> Run diff vmlinuz-Tom vmlinuz-Jerry and see if they differ. Then just to
Don't even bother. If Tom and Jerry both did builds, the binaries *will* differ, because...
% dmesg | grep 'Linux vers'
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.1.0-rc5-next-20190416-dirty (source@turing-police) (gcc version 9.0.1 20190328 (Red Hat 9.0.1-0.12) (GCC)) #664 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 17 12:31:51 EDT 2019
Seriously ? Since when are you working for turing-police ? But yes agreed... at least it gives someone a
reasonably sane path to follow... nothing lost in trying right :)
There's a datestamp, a build number, and a compiler version in there.
Also, since vmlinuz is a binary file, /bin/cmp is a better choice than diff.
Agreed.
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