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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "Nicholas Berry" <nikberry@med.umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: change kernel name
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:04:26 -0500 "Nicholas Berry" <nikberry@med.umich.edu> wrote:

| Note the words 'after the compilation'.

I think that the other person who answered 'no' was close enough.

BTW, did you say what processor architecture and what kernel
image file format?  If it's a zipped kernel image, changing text
in it is a bit tougher, I guess.  If it's not zipped, almost
anything could change that string (just not make it larger).

--
~Randy

| >>> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> 02/04/04 07:38AM
| >>>
| On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
| 
| > Hello,
| >
| > I have the following question:
| > If I compile the kernel (2.4.*) and boot it in, then the
| kernel-release,
| > as shown by 'uname -r' will be the string that was in the
| EXTRAVERSION
| > string from the kernel Makefile.
| > Is there any way to change this 'identity' of the kernel after the
| > compilation?
| > Such as
| > changekernelname bzImage "newname"
| 
| Put anything you want in the structure, system_utsname, in your copy
| of
| linux-nn-nn/init/version.c.
| 
| Cheers,
| Dick Johnson
| Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
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