-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 21:27, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 04:01 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: > > >The make modules step on my box, a NForce2 with an Athlon-XP 2500+ easily > >took 15-20 minutes, and possibly 30. I'm not sure. > > > >I think genkernel builds more stuff than I might if I did the kernel by > >hand, and I'm assuming your laptop is not faster than my desktop. 15 > > minutes was likely not enough. > > > I'd have to time 'make modules' as I've got the same CPU. I know that 'make > bzImage' takes less than 4 minutes, so I don't imagine that building the > modules takes much longer. > > What does genkernel all do ?? I know it builds "busybox", but that > shouldn't add that much longer to the process.
A stock genkernel config includes shed loads of modules, as it has to, really. The kernel is creates does need to work on virtually every possible configuration. Busybox does seem to take a fair amount of time, probably not quite as long as the kernel. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qXBdInuLMrk7bIwRAsBcAJ934kfAM8/XANk0ICRcZEg47FgGCwCeKYY8 sX0LhkNRCw5ljAEuXA4DCk0= =/RXF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
