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diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 45abc363dd3e..65516ab0cabe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,18 @@
#
# create a compressed vmlinux image from the original vmlinux
#
+# vmlinuz is:
+# decompression code (*.o)
+# asm globals (piggy.S), including:
+# vmlinux.bin.(gz|bz2|lzma|...)
+#
+# vmlinux.bin is:
+# vmlinux stripped of debugging and comments
+# vmlinux.bin.all is:
+# vmlinux.bin + vmlinux.relocs
+# vmlinux.bin.(gz|bz2|lzma|...) is:
+# (see scripts/Makefile.lib size_append)
+# compressed vmlinux.bin.all + u32 size of vmlinux.bin.all
targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma \
vmlinux.bin.xz vmlinux.bin.lzo vmlinux.bin.lz4