Re: [PATCH] [FIX] init/Kconfig: fix option to disable kernel compression

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Sat Nov 16 2013 - 04:43:26 EST


On 11/15/2013 10:21 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> Some architectures with self-decompressing kernel images did not compile
> with commit 69f0554ec261fd686ac7fa1c598cc9eb27b83a80 because they don't
> provide a non-decompression mechanism for uncompressed kernels.
>
> Rectify this problem by allowing uncompressed kernels only for architectures
> which explicitly state they support them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@xxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> arch/arc/Kconfig | 2 ++
> init/Kconfig | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arc/Kconfig b/arch/arc/Kconfig
> index 2ee0c9b..15f4c3d 100644
> --- a/arch/arc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arc/Kconfig
> @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ config ARC
> select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
> select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
> select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
> + select HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
> + select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
> select HAVE_KPROBES
> select HAVE_KRETPROBES
> select HAVE_MEMBLOCK
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 5496f30..d4baf2e 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
>
> which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
>
> +config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
> + bool
> +
> config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
> bool
>
> @@ -118,6 +121,7 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
> choice
> prompt "Kernel compression mode"
> default KERNEL_GZIP
> + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
> help
> The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
> Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
> @@ -138,6 +142,7 @@ choice
>
> config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
> bool "No compression"
> + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
> help
> No compression at all. The kernel is huge but the compression and
> decompression times are zero.
>

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