MIPS: Make the debugging of compressed kernel configurable

This patch adds a new DEBUG_ZBOOT option to allow the users to enable it
to debug the compressed kernel support for a new board and this optoin
should be disabled to reduce the kernel image size and speed up the
kernel booting procedure when the compressed kernel support is stable.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/918/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug b/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
index d2b88a0be519..32a010d5edb9 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
@@ -102,4 +102,23 @@ config RUNTIME_DEBUG
           arch/mips/include/asm/debug.h for debugging macros.
           If unsure, say N.
 
+config DEBUG_ZBOOT
+        bool "Enable compressed kernel support debugging"
+        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT
+        default n
+        help
+          If you want to add compressed kernel support to a new board, and the
+          board supports uart16550 compatible serial port, please select
+          SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 for your board and enable this option to
+          debug it.
+
+          If your board doesn't support uart16550 compatible serial port, you
+          can try to select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT and use the other methods to
+          debug it. for example, add a new serial port support just as
+          arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-16550.c does.
+
+          After the compressed kernel support works, please disable this option
+          to reduce the kernel image size and speed up the booting procedure a
+          little.
+
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