Hi Sedat, On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:28 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Masahiro, > > I wanted to test the patch-series "x86/boot: Remove runtime > relocations from compressed kernel" version 4 against Linux v5.8-rc5. > > This modifies/touches stuff in arch/x86/boot/compressed. > > How can I just test the series the fast way? > > I tried... > > make $make_opts vmlinux This does not build under arch/x86/boot/compressed/. > > That takes far too long - unsure it does what I want. bzImage wrapps vmlinux. (setup + self-extracting-vmlinux) So, you cannot build the decompressor only. See this dependency: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.7/arch/x86/Makefile#L259 > Thanks in advance. $ make bzImage ... is the best I can suggest. As I said above, Kbuild must build vmlinux before bzImage (so it takes far too long) but you can skip building modules. > > Regards, > - Sedat - > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/project/lkml/list/?series=&submitter=23508 -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
