[plug] What's the best way to get kernel version from a binary?

[BillK]

It's a binary, not a running kernel! And you can't boot it until you have built a matching initrd. Catch 22

BillK


On 24 November 2016 11:48:56 AM AWST, "Marcos Raúl Carot" <marcos.carot at gmail.com> wrote:
>cat /proc/version
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>On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 11:36 Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
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>> What's the best way to get kernel version from a binary?
>>
>> Context is that the raspberry pi stock firware doesn’t use version
>> numbers in the filename and I want to know what kernel version I am
>> building a custom initrd using dracut for a btrfs on root filesystem.
>>
>> Easy to get manually (strings|grep the file) but its clumsy and hard
>to
>> get precision in a script and uname doesn’t work on a file :(
>>
>> BillK
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