Subj : vmlinux internals
To   : comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
From : mohan.rajagopalan
Date : Thu Jul 15 2004 11:38 am

I have a few questions about the internals of the vmlinux binary
created during
a kernel build. AFAIS this is the elf executable file from which the
binary image of the kernel is derived.

Upon disassembling the file for inspection I noticed that the start
address in the
elf header points to the "rest_init" function.  I would have expected
it to point to the "start_kernel" function. Could someone explain why
this is so .... shouldn't start_kernel the first function to be
executed in the kernel.

-mr

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