Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:08:49 -0500 > Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... >> Having to go >> through the steps required to generate a .deb and installing it for >> every change would take 3-4 hours away from my productivity. >> > > I'm no expert, and maybe I'm missing something, but rebuilding a kernel > the Debian way is just: > > 1: make [menu|x|g|whatever]config] > 2: make-kpkg --revision=whatever kernel_image > 3: dpkg -i whatever.deb > > How does this add significant overhead to the standard methods for > building kernels? [I am perfectly willing to be educated; as I > mentioned, I'm no expert.] > > >> Larry >> > > Normal kernel, step 1 is the same. Normal kernel, step 2 is make && make modules_install Normal kernel, step 3 is make install
For step 2 on a non Debian machine I can add -j3 and run three simultaneous processes. I can build an entire kernel tree from scratch in under 20 minutes. The make-kpkg takes 47 minutes. For step 3 on a non Debian system I can do it in 13 seconds. The "dpkg -i whatever" takes over 13 minutes. Here's how you can test this... 1. On a Debian system time nice make-kpkg... && time nice dpkg -i .... 2. On the same system time nice (make -j2 && make -j2 modules_install && make -j2 install) (If you only have a single threaded uniprocessor leave off the -j2) Ehud _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
