Magic numbers ?

From: Conio sandiago
Date: Sun Feb 19 2006 - 23:02:53 EST


Hi All,

I want to know about the magic numbers in the uImage of linux kernel,
I want to know how is this magic number calculated ?
I am having 2 images in the flash memory,

One is linux kernel image - which has a magic number of 0x27051956,
and second image is ramdisk,

whose magic number is also the same ,
How come this is tru?
can anyone please help.
Thanks
conio
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