Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It's also easy enough to either use objdump -h or nm to extract info 
> from vmlinux; or for some of the simpler stuff, just parse the ELF 
> directly (perhaps using libelf).
>
> There is also the -R option to ld, which imports symbols from one 
> executable into another. 

Yes, I used -R, though it was necessary to generate a copy of vmlinux 
with a filtered symbol list to prevent collisions.  But I'm not sure any 
of this is necessary with Ian's approach.

   J

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