If the kernel is going to be compressed anyway, there is no point in double-compressing the built-in initramfs. Hide the built-in initramfs compression choice in this case. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- init/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++ usr/Kconfig | 2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 24b23d843df1..88da0976bbfa 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED bool +config KERNEL_COMPRESSED + bool + choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP @@ -201,6 +204,7 @@ choice config KERNEL_GZIP bool "Gzip" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP + select KERNEL_COMPRESSED help The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance between compression ratio and decompression speed. @@ -208,6 +212,7 @@ config KERNEL_GZIP config KERNEL_BZIP2 bool "Bzip2" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + select KERNEL_COMPRESSED help Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel @@ -218,6 +223,7 @@ config KERNEL_BZIP2 config KERNEL_LZMA bool "LZMA" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + select KERNEL_COMPRESSED help This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. @@ -226,6 +232,7 @@ config KERNEL_LZMA config KERNEL_XZ bool "XZ" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ + select KERNEL_COMPRESSED help XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable @@ -241,6 +248,7 @@ config KERNEL_XZ config KERNEL_LZO bool "LZO" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO + select KERNEL_COMPRESSED help Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed @@ -249,6 +257,7 @@ config KERNEL_LZO config KERNEL_LZ4 bool "LZ4" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 + select KERNEL_COMPRESSED help LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at diff --git a/usr/Kconfig b/usr/Kconfig index bdf5bbd40727..f39eeb9ea2e3 100644 --- a/usr/Kconfig +++ b/usr/Kconfig @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ config RD_LZ4 choice prompt "Built-in initramfs compression mode" - depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE != "" + depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE != "" && !KERNEL_COMPRESSED help This option allows you to decide by which algorithm the builtin initramfs will be compressed. Several compression algorithms are -- 2.24.1