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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:22:04 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@...il.com> Subject: [PATCH] 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@...omium.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 majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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