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On arm64 we build compressed images, but "make install" by default will install the old non-compressed one. To actually get the compressed image install, you need to use "make zinstall", which is not the usual way to install a kernel. Which may not sound like much of an issue, but when you deal with multiple architectures (and years of your fingers knowing the regular "make install" incantation), this inconsistency is pretty annoying. But as Will Deacon says: "Sadly, bootloaders being as top quality as you might expect, I don't think we're in a position to rely on decompressor support across the board. Our Image.gz is literally just that -- we don't have a built-in decompressor (nor do I think we want to rush into that again after the fun we had on arm32) and the recent EFI zboot support solves that problem for platforms using EFI. Changing the default 'install' target terrifies me. There are bound to be folks with embedded boards who've scripted this and we could really ruin their day if we quietly give them a compressed kernel that their bootloader doesn't know how to handle :/" So make this conditional on a new "COMPRESSED_INSTALL" option. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.