Hi Christopher, First, this kind of discussion should be on the devel list, please move any followups there. Thanks.
Comments inline... On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:22 PM, The Cadillac Kid wrote: > it has been a long time since i last did a build.. so I set up on my fedora > 17 machine to do it.. and things wet pretty well but I have some questions.. We recommend either CentOS 6 or Debian 6, with the http://doc.astlinux.org/devdoc:packages should work straight away. Many of us use a VM. Personally I use VMware (Fusion) with Debian 6 using 2 CPU's, 1024MB of RAM, 40GB drive. > I set out to build for soekris net5501. > > the same packages I have had issues with in the past seem to give me trouble > again.. rhino, linux-atm, and lm-sensors Without details I'd can't comment. I've never seen an issue with those packages. > I built crosstool-ng Ok and have a good toolchain. except for the above > packages my astlinux built fine.. Good. > I was wondering why does crosstool-ng use kernel 2.6.35? (seems old).. Im > assuming I can bump it to whatever I wish to work with? as long as I first > build my toolchain with the same version? > id like to be on 2.6.38 or higher.. I would not mess with the kernel version. Linux 2.6.35.13 is the latest 2.6.x on http://kernel.org/ . There is nothing in 2.6.38 that the net5501 needs is there ? > also in the kernel config.. it used to on the OLD versions of astlinux set up > a very nice minimal kernel load and selected the geode_LX and optimized > options for the soekris net5501.. now it seems to use a rather generic > kernel config file.. how do I get back the nice optimized for soekris kernel > config?? We changed things with AstLinux 1.x, we now have two kernel configs, one with and one without SMP. Since the more general kernel is mostly just added modules, the minimal extra size is mostly only disk space not RAM. We also use a common toolchain for all builds, our testing showed the special board compiler tweaks made no practical difference for our purposes. We have learned over time that this approach generates a better tested, solid base platform. > it didnt seem to make a difference when I selected geode or generic i586 in > the menuconfig. > > also I noticed that during the build the system only ran up to about .7 or .8 > load factor.. I am running a core i7-3770k , is there a place where i can > have the CPU more utilized so the builds complete faster? during the > toolchain build it ran the load up to 1.6 or so and completed in 20 minutes > which I felt was good.. but in the astlinux build it seemed not to make > use.. id like to set it as high priority since it is a dedicated dev > machine... We purposely set BR2_JLEVEL=1 to eliminate any possible race conditions with multiple make's. Coming from a person that builds *alot* there is much to be said for builds that always work with consistent results.. :-) Lonnie > > -Christopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
