Commit-ID: fb7183ef3c016d9067ff83f3ff2455be1818f902 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fb7183ef3c016d9067ff83f3ff2455be1818f902 Author: Kees Cook <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:22:04 -0700 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Cc: Junjie Mao <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> --- 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 [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
