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Re: [PATCH v2] EFI: strip xen.efi when putting it on the EFI partition
- To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:34:10 +0100
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 06:05:37PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> With debug info retained, xen.efi can be quite large. Unlike for xen.gz
> there's no intermediate step (mkelf32 there) involved which would strip
> debug info kind of as a side effect. While the installing of xen.efi on
> the EFI partition is an optional step (intended to be a courtesy to the
> developer), adjust it also for the purpose of documenting what distros
> would be expected to do during boot loader configuration (which is what
> would normally put xen.efi into the EFI partition).
>
> Model the control over stripping after Linux'es module installation,
> except that the stripped executable is constructed in the build area
> instead of in the destination location. This is to conserve on space
> used there - EFI partitions tend to be only a few hundred Mb in size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@xxxxxxx> # arm
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
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Anthony PERARD
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