Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Subject | Re: How to speed up building of modules? | Date | Mon, 07 Apr 2003 00:09:03 +0200 |
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Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> wrote: >With all the distributions, and differnent >offerings of distributions, and errata kernels... today, I count >almost 40 distinct kernels we're trying to support, not counting the >mainline development on kernel.org, and not counting multiple >config file variations for each of those 40 or so kernels. > >The main catch seems to be the symbol checksums. In order for those >to match (and I'm not too interested in subverting those), the >config files used during the compile need to be very similar. That >means building lots and lots of modules. (Think about all the >modules which are enabled in redhat's typical default config files.) >This takes time. Mulitply 3 drivers * ~40 kernels * several config >files, and pretty soon... well, pretty soon you don't remember >what "preety soon" means. [...] >Any ideas?
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