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diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index ba7b7ddc3844..a57dedbfc7b7 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -257,6 +257,18 @@ config PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
 
 endchoice
 
+config PARISC_SELF_EXTRACT
+        bool "Build kernel as self-extracting executable"
+        default y
+        help
+          Say Y if you want to build the parisc kernel as a kind of
+          self-extracting executable.
+
+          If you say N here, the kernel will be compressed with gzip
+          which can be loaded by the palo bootloader directly too.
+
+          If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
+
 config SMP
         bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
         ---help---