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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-06 16:44:14 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-06 16:45:01 +0100
commitf0ef03985130287c6c84ebe69416cf790e6cc00e (patch)
tree3ecb04cc4d82e5fc3ae5f1747e6da172ae8cbcb7 /init/Kconfig
parent16097439703bcd38e9fe5608c12add6dacb825ea (diff)
parent31bbed527e7039203920c51c9fb48c27aed0820c (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/textedit
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig block/blktrace.c kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic conflict: kernel/trace/blktrace.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -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