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Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index fde3d09e8b27..8b1ab81ecda8 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -125,10 +125,13 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 bool +config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + bool + choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP - depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ @@ -207,6 +210,16 @@ config KERNEL_LZ4 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is faster than LZO. +config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + bool "None" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + help + Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what + you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation + environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully + slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor + and jump right at uncompressed kernel image. + endchoice config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME @@ -1051,10 +1064,9 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION depends on EXPERT help - Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and - data elimination with the linker by compiling with - -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with - --gc-sections. + Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with + the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, + and linking with --gc-sections. This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel code and static data, particularly for small configs and |