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kbuild: add cmd_file_size 

Some architectures support self-extracting kernel, which embeds the
compressed vmlinux.

It has 4 byte data at the end so the decompressor can know the vmlinux
size beforehand.

GZIP natively has it in the trailer, but for the other compression
algorithms, the hand-crafted trailer is added.

It is unneeded to generate such _corrupted_ compressed files because
it is possible to pass the size data as a separate file.

For example, the assembly code:

     .incbin "compressed-vmlinux-with-size-data"

can be transformed to:

     .incbin "compressed-vmlinux"
     .incbin "size-data"

My hope is, after some reworks of the decompressors, the macros
cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}_with_size will go away.

This new macro, cmd_file_size, will be useful to generate a separate
size-data file.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
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Masahiro Yamada 2022-01-10 03:15:29 +09:00
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@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ printf "%08x\n" $$dec_size | \
} \
)
quiet_cmd_file_size = GEN $@
cmd_file_size = $(size_append) > $@
quiet_cmd_bzip2 = BZIP2 $@
cmd_bzip2 = cat $(real-prereqs) | $(KBZIP2) -9 > $@