2009/11/20 Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 06:25:23PM +0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/11/20 Jeff Mahoney
: On 11/20/2009 06:56 AM, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
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 :)
No, symbolic debugging info was on. I got a patch from Alan Cox to try against an -ac kernel, and he had debug stuff enabled and at first a very general config. I did slim things down after fair amount of trial and error getting new options wrong and re-builds. It was a lot quicker with 2.2, or early 2.4, when I stopped bothering re-compiling the kernel because you guys got the generic almost as fast and I had a decent amount of memory for the times (512MiB).
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.
I hope so, thanks :) I'm giving Fedora 11 a quick spin, then will give the Kernel Git stuff a shot next week. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org