11 This file records the order in which modules appear in Makefiles. This
12 is used by modprobe to deterministically resolve aliases that match
17 This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used
18 by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.
20 modules.builtin.modinfo
21 -----------------------
22 This file contains modinfo from all modules that are built into the kernel.
23 Unlike modinfo of a separate module, all fields are prefixed with module name.
31 Additional options to pass when preprocessing. The preprocessing options
32 will be used in all cases where kbuild does preprocessing including
33 building C files and assembler files.
37 Additional options to the assembler (for built-in and modules).
41 Additional assembler options for modules.
45 Additional assembler options for built-in.
49 Additional options to the C compiler (for built-in and modules).
53 Additional options for $(CC) when used to compile
54 code that is compiled as built-in.
58 Additional module specific options to use for $(CC).
62 Additional options used for $(LD) when linking modules.
66 Additional flags to be passed to $(HOSTCC) when building host programs.
70 Additional flags to be passed to $(HOSTCXX) when building host programs.
74 Additional flags to be passed when linking host programs.
78 Additional libraries to link against when building host programs.
82 Set the top-level Kconfig file to the value of this environment
83 variable. The default name is "Kconfig".
87 Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assigned same values as "V=...".
89 See make help for the full list.
91 Setting "V=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_VERBOSE.
95 Set the directory to look for the kernel source when building external
98 Setting "M=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_EXTMOD.
102 Specify the output directory when building the kernel.
104 The output directory can also be specified using "O=...".
106 Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.
110 Specify the extra build checks. The same value can be assigned by passing
111 W=... from the command line.
113 See `make help` for the list of the supported values.
115 Setting "W=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN.
119 For the deb-pkg target, allows overriding the normal heuristics deployed by
120 deb-pkg. Normally deb-pkg attempts to guess the right architecture based on
121 the UTS_MACHINE variable, and on some architectures also the kernel config.
122 The value of KBUILD_DEBARCH is assumed (not checked) to be a valid Debian
127 Set ARCH to the architecture to be built.
129 In most cases the name of the architecture is the same as the
130 directory name found in the arch/ directory.
132 But some architectures such as x86 and sparc have aliases.
134 - x86: i386 for 32 bit, x86_64 for 64 bit
135 - sh: sh for 32 bit, sh64 for 64 bit
136 - sparc: sparc32 for 32 bit, sparc64 for 64 bit
140 Specify an optional fixed part of the binutils filename.
141 CROSS_COMPILE can be a part of the filename or the full path.
143 CROSS_COMPILE is also used for ccache in some setups.
147 Additional options for sparse.
149 CF is often used on the command-line like this::
151 make CF=-Wbitwise C=2
155 INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map
156 images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values.
160 Install script called when using "make install".
161 The default name is "installkernel".
163 The script will be called with the following arguments:
165 - $1 - kernel version
166 - $2 - kernel image file
167 - $3 - kernel map file
168 - $4 - default install path (use root directory if blank)
170 The implementation of "make install" is architecture specific
171 and it may differ from the above.
173 INSTALLKERNEL is provided to enable the possibility to
174 specify a custom installer when cross compiling a kernel.
178 Specify where to install modules.
179 The default value is::
181 $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
183 The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.
187 INSTALL_MOD_PATH specifies a prefix to MODLIB for module directory
188 relocations required by build roots. This is not defined in the
189 makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed.
193 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP, if defined, will cause modules to be
194 stripped after they are installed. If INSTALL_MOD_STRIP is '1', then
195 the default option --strip-debug will be used. Otherwise,
196 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP value will be used as the options to the strip command.
200 INSTALL_HDR_PATH specifies where to install user space headers when
201 executing "make headers_*".
203 The default value is::
207 $(objtree) is the directory where output files are saved.
208 The output directory is often set using "O=..." on the commandline.
210 The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.
213 --------------------------------------------------
214 Kbuild uses a relative path to point to the tree when possible. For instance,
215 when building in the source tree, the source tree path is '.'
217 Setting this flag requests Kbuild to use absolute path to the source tree.
218 There are some useful cases to do so, like when generating tag files with
219 absolute path entries etc.
223 This variable allows a passphrase or PIN to be passed to the sign-file
224 utility when signing kernel modules, if the private key requires such.
228 KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid errors in case of undefined
229 symbols in the final module linking stage. It changes such errors
232 KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL
233 ----------------------
234 KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to skip the final link of modules.
235 This is solely useful to speed up test compiles.
239 For modules that use symbols from other modules.
240 See more details in modules.rst.
244 For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one arch
245 to be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.::
247 $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags
249 To get all available archs you can also specify all. E.g.::
251 $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all tags
253 KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
254 ----------------------
255 Setting this to a date string overrides the timestamp used in the
256 UTS_VERSION definition (uname -v in the running kernel). The value has to
257 be a string that can be passed to date -d. The default value
258 is the output of the date command at one point during build.
260 KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST
261 ------------------------------------
262 These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during
263 boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands
264 whoami and host, respectively.
268 If this variable is set to 1, Kbuild will use Clang and LLVM utilities instead
269 of GCC and GNU binutils to build the kernel.