Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (69 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 06:25:23PM +0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> 2009/11/20 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>:
> > On 11/20/2009 06:56 AM, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
>
> > > Using generic binary rpm's would be a huge time saver on compiling
> > > vanilla from source.
>
> > We don't have a git repo of expanded trees yet,
>
> Honestly for what I'm doing, an archive of the 'best' 2.6.28, 2.6.29 &
> 2.6.30 rpm's would let me figure out which release introduced the
> issue.
>
> There's not just me with a box, that fails to boot 11.2 so some sort
> of fallback kernel (to run installer in degraded mode) wiith hopefully
> a small net archive of unsupported binaries, would help generate
> better kernel bug reports.
>
> Last time I got involved with kernel debug testing, I had to set aside
> about 20 GB of disk space, even after I de-bloated the kernel config,
> and it took about 2 1/2 hours to compile on a dual Athlon MP box.

That's not a "de-bloated" kernel config :)

Use the 'make localmodconfig' option in the latest kernel version to
provide you with a config that is tuned for your machine.  It only
selects the options that you have loaded modules for and makes for a
_much_ faster build.

hope this helps,

greg k-h
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