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-rw-r--r--arch/parisc/Kconfig12
-rw-r--r--arch/parisc/Makefile5
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index ba7b7ddc3844..a57dedbfc7b7 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -257,6 +257,18 @@ config PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
endchoice
+config PARISC_SELF_EXTRACT
+ bool "Build kernel as self-extracting executable"
+ default y
+ help
+ Say Y if you want to build the parisc kernel as a kind of
+ self-extracting executable.
+
+ If you say N here, the kernel will be compressed with gzip
+ which can be loaded by the palo bootloader directly too.
+
+ If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
+
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
---help---
diff --git a/arch/parisc/Makefile b/arch/parisc/Makefile
index 58fae5d2449d..01946ebaff72 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile
@@ -129,8 +129,13 @@ Image: vmlinux
bzImage: vmlinux
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
+ifdef CONFIG_PARISC_SELF_EXTRACT
vmlinuz: bzImage
$(OBJCOPY) $(boot)/bzImage $@
+else
+vmlinuz: vmlinux
+ @gzip -cf -9 $< > $@
+endif
install:
$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(src)/arch/parisc/install.sh \