Commit-ID: fb7183ef3c016d9067ff83f3ff2455be1818f902 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fb7183ef3c016d9067ff83f3ff2455be1818f902 Author: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> AuthorDate: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:22:04 -0700 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> CommitDate: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 22:46:02 +0100
x86, boot: Document intermediates more clearly 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> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.flem...@intel.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> Cc: Junjie Mao <eternal....@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141031162204.ga26...@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> --- 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 704f58a..8a39181 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 -- 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/
