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. Thanks,
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.
From what I know the manufacturer is a no-name Chinese one just like in the case of so many Wondermedia tablets. They don't really care about the GPL so unless Mediatek releases the kernel there's not much chance in getting it. If Wondermedia wouldn't have been nice and hadn't released the WM8505 kernel we could have still waited for Eken or some others to release do so. Btw thanks for that Harald.
I agree that Mediatek doesn't have to but it would be nice of them, maybe someone could ask nicely.
Other then that the best way to look in a binary that I know of is with IDA Pro ... That and the datasheets should help.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
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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The original poster previously referred to Gigabyte as the manfuacutrer/brand.
If that is the case, I have pre-existing contacts to Gigabyte legal due to past gpl-violations.org work. The same is true for pretty much all of the large Taiwanese brand names.
So if somebody can provide me actual evidence _whcih_ vendor is selling _which_ particular model without providing source code to the GPL licensed components, I think chances are pretty good that a (non-legal) complaint that I send to the respective legal department has the desired impact.
Talking to MTK: I could do it. But past experience shows that they are unlikely to do something beyond their obligations. But I still think the phone makers should be the first "target", before asknig MTK to do something that they are not required to.
Regards, Harald
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