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This configuration is useful for boot testing malta_defconfig in QEMU with just a simple cpio initrd, instead of a full ext4 rootfs. This results in an increase of ~164KB of vmlinux (with GCC 11.2.0): $ diskus vmlinux.before 11.19 MB (11,194,368 bytes) $ diskus vmlinux.after 11.36 MB (11,358,208 bytes) This size increase comes from the fact that usr/Kconfig is sourced when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is enabled, which defaults to supporting several decompression algorithms for compressed initrds. This seems like a reasonable tradeoff but these configurations could be disabled in the future if there are complaints about the size increase. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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 Restructured Text 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.