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| author | Juergen Beisert <j.beisert@pengutronix.de> | 2006-07-11 08:20:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Juergen Beisert <j.beisert@pengutronix.de> | 2006-07-11 08:20:55 +0000 |
| commit | 4dab1e86a6abe84713dc6fce9810c75b53888084 (patch) | |
| tree | a3b033eba485b315b15623f3defcf3e385a59586 /rules/kernel.in | |
| parent | 4c21b3f7447dee33266e59524adfb5b6ced8e72c (diff) | |
| download | ptxdist-4dab1e86a6abe84713dc6fce9810c75b53888084.tar.gz ptxdist-4dab1e86a6abe84713dc6fce9810c75b53888084.tar.xz | |
* adding more help
* create a kernel image in all cases to be in sync with user's manual
git-svn-id: https://svn.pengutronix.de/svn/ptxdist/trunks/ptxdist-trunk@5924 33e552b5-05e3-0310-8538-816dae2090ed
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diff --git a/rules/kernel.in b/rules/kernel.in index 7fb9adc43..1184ca5a9 100644 --- a/rules/kernel.in +++ b/rules/kernel.in @@ -80,19 +80,33 @@ choice config KERNEL_TARGET_IMAGE_BZ bool prompt "bzImage" + help + This usually is the target to be used on ia32 platforms. It + is not limited in size (to be more precise: Limited up to 4MiB). config KERNEL_TARGET_IMAGE_Z bool prompt "zImage" + help + This usually is the target to be used on ia32 platforms, it + is the older format and limited to about 500k in size due to + low memory size restrictions. config KERNEL_TARGET_IMAGE_U bool prompt "uImage" select HOST_UMKIMAGE + help + This is the target for most non ia32 platforms like PowerPC + and ARM architectures. Its a compressed image with additional + embedded information. config KERNEL_TARGET_IMAGE_VMLINUX bool prompt "vmlinux" + help + This is the target to get the kernel image as an ELF. Mostly + used for debugging purposes. endchoice # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |