On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:22:04AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > This adds a comment detailing the various intermediate files used to build > the bootable decompression image for the x86 kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
Definitely the documentation I wish I had long ago when trying to figure out the twisty maze of binaries. Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> > arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile > b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile > index be1e07d4b596..44a866b85c6f 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 > -- > 1.9.1 > > > -- > Kees Cook > Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
