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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2014-10-31 19:22:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2014-11-02 00:46:02 +0300 |
| commit | fb7183ef3c016d9067ff83f3ff2455be1818f902 (patch) | |
| tree | b0d2f59a8079b8541fd3796c0e3f3497f5662f56 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 4f4274af7009890f0d4724909bf9038193955489 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fb7183ef3c016d9067ff83f3ff2455be1818f902.tar.xz | |
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 <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141031162204.GA26268@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile index 704f58aa79cd..8a3918180a9e 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 |