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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-01-10 03:15:29 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-01-14 02:57:43 +0900
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kbuild: add cmd_file_size
Some architectures support self-extracting kernel, which embeds the compressed vmlinux. It has 4 byte data at the end so the decompressor can know the vmlinux size beforehand. GZIP natively has it in the trailer, but for the other compression algorithms, the hand-crafted trailer is added. It is unneeded to generate such _corrupted_ compressed files because it is possible to pass the size data as a separate file. For example, the assembly code: .incbin "compressed-vmlinux-with-size-data" can be transformed to: .incbin "compressed-vmlinux" .incbin "size-data" My hope is, after some reworks of the decompressors, the macros cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}_with_size will go away. This new macro, cmd_file_size, will be useful to generate a separate size-data file. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
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