On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 4:51 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > Thanks Masahiro, I remembered you said just look at "make help". So, I tried "make bzImage". After 15mins I stopped the build and did a full new kernel build which unfortunately failed on the last minutes when doing the arch/x86/boot/compressed stuff. - Sedat -
