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authorWu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>2010-01-31 20:39:40 +0800
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2010-02-27 12:53:24 +0100
commitf86a69b15f60965a224e7e2516ad41070692cc19 (patch)
tree9518ffe0e5128114be5651589d94f184a349d100 /arch/mips
parentb66bb6090d9aa36931911e34d3f069932934b6fe (diff)
downloadlinux-f86a69b15f60965a224e7e2516ad41070692cc19.tar.bz2
MIPS: Make the debugging of compressed kernel configurable
This patch adds a new DEBUG_ZBOOT option to allow the users to enable it to debug the compressed kernel support for a new board and this optoin should be disabled to reduce the kernel image size and speed up the kernel booting procedure when the compressed kernel support is stable. Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/918/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/Kconfig.debug19
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile2
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug b/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
index d2b88a0be519..32a010d5edb9 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
@@ -102,4 +102,23 @@ config RUNTIME_DEBUG
arch/mips/include/asm/debug.h for debugging macros.
If unsure, say N.
+config DEBUG_ZBOOT
+ bool "Enable compressed kernel support debugging"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT
+ default n
+ help
+ If you want to add compressed kernel support to a new board, and the
+ board supports uart16550 compatible serial port, please select
+ SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 for your board and enable this option to
+ debug it.
+
+ If your board doesn't support uart16550 compatible serial port, you
+ can try to select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT and use the other methods to
+ debug it. for example, add a new serial port support just as
+ arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-16550.c does.
+
+ After the compressed kernel support works, please disable this option
+ to reduce the kernel image size and speed up the booting procedure a
+ little.
+
endmenu
diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 76d69303b833..790ddd397620 100644
--- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(LINUXINCLUDE) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ \
obj-y := $(obj)/head.o $(obj)/decompress.o $(obj)/dbg.o
+ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ZBOOT
obj-$(CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550) += $(obj)/uart-16550.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MACH_ALCHEMY) += $(obj)/uart-alchemy.o
+endif
OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin := $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) -O binary -R .comment -S
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin: $(KBUILD_IMAGE)