On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:57 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/10/5 Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>: > > 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. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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