how to decompile a linux kernel zImage

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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Tue Mar 8 16:31:20 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:51:55AM -0800, burebista wrote:
> Does anybody know how to decompile a linux kernel zImage file, I need to extract 
> some info about MT6516 processor from there. I successfully extracted the 
> .config make file, but want to see other parameters too.

why don't you simply contact the manufacturer of the phone?  Which exact
vendor + model is that?  As the Linux kernel is GPL licensed, they _have to_
release the source code to it.

It is not MTK who needs to release it, but the phone manufacturer.

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