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Thaidog
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 Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: Is there a way to decompress the kernel bzimage? |
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I would like to be able to know the size of my kernel once it has been deflated by the cpu and is in memory. Is there a way to do this?
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Thaidog,
Check the size of /usr/src/linux/vmlinux - thats the uncompressed kernel
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Thaidog,
Check the size of /usr/src/linux/vmlinux - thats the uncompressed kernel |
Thanks! (3.3M uncompressed... that's pretty good right?)
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