vmlinux location

mrmarkgray · 12-06-2011, 03:49 AM

Hi,

I have installed the default Natty build. It does not contain vmlinux (only vmlinuz). How can I get the vmlinux that corresponds to this exact version of vmlinuz that is on the board.

Regards,

zordrak · 12-06-2011, 05:09 AM

vmlinux and vmlinuz are the same thing, only vmlinuz is zip-compressed.

I can think of no obvious reason why you'd need the uncompressed version.

mrmarkgray · 12-07-2011, 08:32 AM

Maybe its not obvious. I need to profile the linux kernel. vmlinux allows my profiler to resolve addresses to function names, so I need uncompressed unstripped binaries. I dont need debug symbols though as I dont need to drill down to code line level.

Can you help?

I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't provide an easy way to get the unstripped vmlinux binary.

Mark

mrmarkgray · 12-08-2011, 04:48 AM

Does this mean that this is impossible on an Ubuntu distribution? Fedora easily provides this binary. Is the solution to move to Fedora?
Thanks