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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-26 21:39:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +0100 |
| commit | 6e15cf04860074ad032e88c306bea656bbdd0f22 (patch) | |
| tree | c346383bb7563e8d66b2f4a502f875b259c34870 /init/Kconfig | |
| parent | be0ea69674ed95e1e98cb3687a241badc756d228 (diff) | |
| parent | 60db56422043aaa455ac7f858ce23c273220f9d9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
kernel/irq/handle.c
Semantic merge:
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 60 |
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 68699137b14..14c483d2b7c 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -101,6 +101,66 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) +config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + bool + +choice + prompt "Kernel compression mode" + default KERNEL_GZIP + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + help + The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. + Several compression algorithms are available, which differ + in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. + Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. + Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. + + If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed + kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older + version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was + supplied by Christian Ludwig) + + High compression options are mostly useful for users, who + are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram + size matters less. + + If in doubt, select 'gzip' + +config KERNEL_GZIP + bool "Gzip" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP + help + The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is + the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both + compression and decompression) is the fastest. + +config KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool "Bzip2" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + help + Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. + Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel + size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. + Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you + will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. + +config KERNEL_LZMA + bool "LZMA" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + help + The most recent compression algorithm. + Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other + two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% + smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. + +endchoice + config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" depends on MMU && BLOCK |