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[PATCH v3 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)
V3:
- expand help text even more (Jan Beulich)
---
 xen/Kconfig.debug | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/Kconfig.debug b/xen/Kconfig.debug
index 279dbe8274..94e818ee09 100644
--- a/xen/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/xen/Kconfig.debug
@@ -129,7 +129,15 @@ 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 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).
 
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2.35.3




 


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