detecting architecture from vmlinuz
 

On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:16 +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [ I am not subscribed to debian-kernel ]
>
> I have found a problem in the bootloader lilo because lilo compute the
> uncompressed size of vmlinuz (-> vmlinux) with an algorithm which is false
> for especially the amd64 architecture.
>
> My question: is there a way to detect the right architecture only from
> the compressed file vmlinuz to compute the size of the uncompressed
> file vmlinux depending on the architecture?
>
> Or does anyone know another (quick) way for reading the real size
> of vmlinux without uncompressing vmlinuz?
>
> (Reason: It make no sense for each detection to uncompress the vmlinuz
> file, which is need to know how much memory is need for the kernel).

You should really ask the upstream developers about this.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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