From cbe828581b4a1717a4331b754c25a27a41d1bc58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Gross Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:28:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: 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 -- 2.39.5