Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen: update CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO help text

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 04.04.23 11:09, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 03.04.2023 18:28, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > --- 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.
> Hmm, INSTALL_EFI_STRIP is only a courtesy to developers wanting to install
> xen.efi directly into the EFI partition. It wouldn't affect the normal
> flow, and hence I think this wants expressing here such that both kinds of
> people have at least a hint what they need to do. I.e. in the normal case
> they'd need to adjust the way xen.efi is "propagated" from its installed
> location onto the EFI partition, to do the desired stripping at that time.
Would you be fine with:

  In case the space on the EFI boot partition is rather
  limited, you may want to install a stripped variant of xen.efi in
  the EFI boot partition (look for "INSTALL_EFI_STRIP" in
  docs/misc/efi.pandoc for more information - when not using
  "make install-xen" for installing xen.efi, stripping needs to be
  done outside the Xen build environment).


Juergen

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