[PATCH] MIPS: Malta: Enable BLK_DEV_INITRD

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue Feb 08 2022 - 14:17:57 EST


This configuration is useful for boot testing malta_defconfig in QEMU
with just a simple cpio initrd, instead of a full ext4 rootfs.

This results in an increase of ~164KB of vmlinux (with GCC 11.2.0):

$ diskus vmlinux.before
11.19 MB (11,194,368 bytes)

$ diskus vmlinux.after
11.36 MB (11,358,208 bytes)

This size increase comes from the fact that usr/Kconfig is sourced when
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is enabled, which defaults to supporting several
decompression algorithms for compressed initrds. This seems like a
reasonable tradeoff but these configurations could be disabled in the
future if there are complaints about the size increase.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig
index 3321bb576944..3456ac8ded6c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
CONFIG_RELAY=y
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_EXPERT=y
# CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
CONFIG_SLAB=y

base-commit: dfd42facf1e4ada021b939b4e19c935dcdd55566
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2.35.1