diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 704f58aa79cd4853f91663512232a59b3441b4c8..8a3918180a9eb705a0539c3135d3a5e4a0d59d10 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,18 @@
 #
 # create a compressed vmlinux image from the original vmlinux
 #
+# vmlinuz is:
+#	decompression code (*.o)
+#	asm globals (piggy.S), including:
+#		vmlinux.bin.(gz|bz2|lzma|...)
+#
+# vmlinux.bin is:
+#	vmlinux stripped of debugging and comments
+# vmlinux.bin.all is:
+#	vmlinux.bin + vmlinux.relocs
+# vmlinux.bin.(gz|bz2|lzma|...) is:
+#	(see scripts/Makefile.lib size_append)
+#	compressed vmlinux.bin.all + u32 size of vmlinux.bin.all
 
 targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma \
 	vmlinux.bin.xz vmlinux.bin.lzo vmlinux.bin.lz4