Re: 71MB compressed for COMPILED(!!!) 2.6.0-test6

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:24:48PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >
> > > config DEBUG_INFO
> > > 	bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
> > > 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> > > 	help
> > >           If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
> > > 	  debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
> > > 	  Say Y here only if you plan to use gdb to debug the kernel.
> > > 	  If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
> > >
> > > "Larger kernel image" yeah, NO SHIT! ;)
> > >
> > > Maybe something that says it may enlarge your kernel by 5-10 times would be
> > > nice...
> >
> > Send a patch...
> >
> 
> How about this one?  :

Looks good to me, but why is this config option arch specific?  Are there
any archatectures that don't support DEBUG_INFO?
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