Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:40:52 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: 71MB compressed for COMPILED(!!!) 2.6.0-test6 |
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:24:48PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > > config DEBUG_INFO > > > bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" > > > depends on DEBUG_KERNEL > > > help > > > If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include > > > debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. > > > Say Y here only if you plan to use gdb to debug the kernel. > > > If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N. > > > > > > "Larger kernel image" yeah, NO SHIT! ;) > > > > > > Maybe something that says it may enlarge your kernel by 5-10 times would be > > > nice... > > > > Send a patch... > > > > How about this one? :
Looks good to me, but why is this config option arch specific? Are there any archatectures that don't support DEBUG_INFO? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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