Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:52:34 +0200 | From | Bernhard Walle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> [2007-09-13 23:56]: > > > I'd like to know a little bit more about why this is needed, how it will be > > used, etc. And given that this feature is intended to improve life for > > distributors, it would be nice to get some feedback from the appropriate > > persons. > > Hm, yes. ELF notes don't appear in the bzImage, since it isn't an ELF > file, so perhaps this doesn't satisfy the requirement. It would help to > have more detail.
the bzImage already contains the version (and much more, e.g. if the kernel is relocatable, the command line length it accepts). See Documentation/i386/boot.txt.
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