Hi, On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:01:34PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 21:44 +0200, Sven Schnelle wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:40:12PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > > What about causing the compressed make to build both a stripped and > > > a non-stripped bzImage (say sbzImage and bzImage). That way you > > > always have the stripped one available for small size things like > > > boot from tape or DVD? but in the usual case we use the bzImage > > > with full contents. > > > > In that case we would also need to build two lifimages - how about > > adding a config option option? Something like "Strip debug > > information from compressed kernel images"? > > Actually, I just looked at what x86 does. It has this in the > arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile: > > OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin := -R .comment -S > $(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE > $(call if_changed,objcopy) > > So it basically strips all the debug information from the kernel before > compressing, which argues there's no need to retain the information > because x86 doesn't bother. Nice. So we could convince Helge by saying "Look, x86 is also stripping it"! :-) Regards Sven
