From fb7183ef3c016d9067ff83f3ff2455be1818f902 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:22:04 -0700 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 Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Junjie Mao Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141031162204.GA26268@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- 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 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 -- 2.34.1