Re: A standard location to find 'vmlinux' to use for oprofile

2006-01-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > > The remaining problem is that we don't really have a standard > > > location for 'vmlinux'. > > > > How about /boot/vmlinux-$version ? > > This feels like the right answer to me. It's consistent with > the naming and using of the rest of the kernel's bits and pieces > (/boot/c

Re: A standard location to find 'vmlinux' to use for oprofile

2006-01-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > > The remaining problem is that we don't really have a standard > > > location for 'vmlinux'. > > > > How about /boot/vmlinux-$version ? > > This feels like the right answer to me. It's consistent with > the naming and using of the rest of the kernel's bits and pieces > (/boot/c

Re: A standard location to find 'vmlinux' to use for oprofile

2006-01-15 Thread Al Stone
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 02:47 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:39:55 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > The remaining problem is that we don't really have a standard > > location for 'vmlinux'. > > How about /boot/vmlinux-$version ? This feels lik

Re: A standard location to find 'vmlinux' to use for oprofile

2006-01-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:39:55 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The remaining problem is that we don't really have a standard > location for 'vmlinux'. How about /boot/vmlinux-$version ? > It would be nice if it's possible to obtain the location information > somewhere, i

A standard location to find 'vmlinux' to use for oprofile

2006-01-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Cc'ing oprofile-list to see if anyone is interested in this topic. > > I've been pondering on using kernel-package to generate debug > > 'vmlinux' images which are used in tools like kernel crash dump > > analysis tools and oprofile[1]. > > > Currently I'm running 'make vmlinux' after genera