Re: [PATCH 12/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular kernel debugging options in the defconfig

From: Sam James
Date: Mon May 05 2025 - 08:56:28 EST


> DEBUGINFO is still disabled, despite enabled in all Linux distros,
> because the ~10x .o bloat is still just so painful on anything
> but the most powerful build boxes.

My hope is that soon, we'll be in a position to have directly-generated
BTF (which should be far quicker than generating tonnes of DWARF) which
should resolve that.