On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:43:03AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:57 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > 2009/10/5 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>:
> > > While we still aren't providing an uncompressed vmlinux image, it is now
> > > possible to extract one from vmlinuz. The following Python script does
> > > the job; give it the filename of the compressed image followed by the
> > > filename for the uncompressed image.
> > >
> > > Ben.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I thought this should be possible but did not find a tool for
> > decompressing the kernel.
> >
> > Does the script also work for non-x86 architectures (or are there any
> > that do compress the kernel besides x86 and have usable precompiled
> > kernels)?
>
> Don't know; I've never tried it.
>
> > I guess if this is packaged with oprofile and pointers to the
> > decompression tool are added to its documentation this would resolve
> > the issue. Perhaps even oprofile upstream might be interested in
> > including the script.
>
> Perhaps, though I expect they would prefer a C program. It shouldn't
> take long to translate to C though. Maybe I'll do that.
Maybe we should reassign this to the orofile package for now so that
they can include your Python script for Squeeze?
Cheers,
Moritz
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