Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels

[Alex Elsayed]

Alex Elsayed <eternaleye <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> I have a kernel that was compiled with LZMA compression (CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA). I
> wish to extract the .config from it without running it, but the script to do so
> does not support such kernels. How could I go about fixing this, so that the
> script supports other compression modes than just gzip?
> 
> 


I managed to extract the .config by abusing dd's skip= parameter to try feeding
every byte-offset to unlzma, but I am still interested in making the script work
with non-gzipped compressed kernels.

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