[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [PATCH v2 2/2] xen: update CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO help text
Update the help text of the CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO option to be a little bit more specific. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> --- V2: - expand help text, especially mentioning INSTALL_EFI_STRIP (Jan Beulich) --- xen/Kconfig.debug | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/xen/Kconfig.debug b/xen/Kconfig.debug index e0d773d347..e6e609f813 100644 --- a/xen/Kconfig.debug +++ b/xen/Kconfig.debug @@ -15,8 +15,14 @@ config DEBUG_INFO bool "Compile Xen with debug info" default DEBUG help - If you say Y here the resulting Xen will include debugging info - resulting in a larger binary image. + Say Y here if you want to build Xen with debug information. This + information is needed e.g. for doing crash dump analysis of the + hypervisor via the "crash" tool. + Saying Y will increase the size of the xen-syms and xen.efi + binaries. In case the space on the EFI boot partition is rather + limited, you may want to make use of the INSTALL_EFI_STRIP make + variable when building the hypervisor, in order to strip xen.efi + before installing it to the EFI partition. if DEBUG || EXPERT -- 2.35.3
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