[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [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). endmenu -- 2.35.3
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