Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:56:36 +0100 (EET) | From | Marek Habersack <> | Subject | Re: Bloat thread... |
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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Miles Lane wrote:
> > would be useful and you could make a combination of config files and > > built kernels & modules available for ftp. Somebody should talk to > > lma@varesearch.com about this. > > Developing a web front-end with the functionality of "make xconfig" > would be a pretty trivial project. I would be great to have a webserver > that would > allow building custom kernels and archive the configurations that are > built. > Then, if a previously used configuration is selected via the web version > of xconfig, that already built kernel gets served up with no delay. > An e-mail notification of when new configurations are ready could be > sent > to the requestee. The kernel could be packaged as either a RPM, debian > package or tar.bz2 file. I guess we'd also serve up the modules and > System.map files. It would be important to be able to deliver matched > PCMCIA and sound driver modules, too. > > Of course, this would be a major hardware investment. A really major one and I doubt that it would spread wide enough to become really useful. GCC is really resource-hungry. But the alternative would be to have one copy of the kernel for each architecture and, possibly, sub-architectures compiled with everything possible as modules. The, given the configuration, architecture, sub-architecture the server could provide the user with a ready-to-go kernel binary. That way the compilation takes place only once when the kernel is released. All the configurations can be stored and served again when necessary.
regards, marek
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