On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 00:24 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Is it possible to decompress and extract the kernel image from the > bzImage without executing it? Ie, is there enough information to find > the compressed data part of the bzImage by inspection? > > At some point we'll need to change the Xen domain builder to handle > bzImage files, and it would be best if we didn't need to run them.
Almost. See lguest's launcher code: load_bzimage(). You'll hate it 8) Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/