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Oops, hit encrypt instead of sign. Release 2.0 of kernel build for kernel 2.5 (kbuild 2.5) is available. http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbuild/, Package kbuild-2.5, download release 2.0. ... You know what they say about .0 releases ... User beware. This announcement is for the base kbuild 2.5 code, i386 against 2.4.16. It uses 2.4.16 because that gives a useful comparison against the previous release and a decent branch point from kernel 2.4 to 2.5. Patches for other architectures and kernels will be out in the next few days, it takes time to generate and test patches for multiple architectures against different kernel trees. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99725412902968&w=2 contains information about the base release of kbuild 2.5. Changelog: New, faster core code, thanks to Larry McVoy for providing the memory mapped database code. Patches are now split into core (kernel independent), common (architecture independent but kernel dependent) and arch (architecture and kernel dependent) files. The core patch applies to all kernels, both 2.4 and 2.5. The common and arch files apply to specific kernels and hardware. Other than being split into separate patches, kbuild 2.5 for the common and i386 directories is almost unchanged from release 1.12. Tom Duffy's patch for drivers/sbus/{audio,char}/Makefile.in has been included. There are some minor changes where the more rigorous error checking of this release found errors in kbuild 2.4 Makefiles. The real change is the complete rewrite of the core code. Instead of using a text file that is read by every compile step (slow!), kbuild 2.5 uses Larry McVoy's memory mapped database from BitKeeper (mdbm is both GPL and BKL). <strong><gloat> Full 2.4.16 .config, everything that compiles built in. 4 x Pentium III (Cascades) @700MHz, 5600 Bogomips, 1Gb RAM, SCSI, 2.4.17-xfs. kbuild 2.4: make oldconfig 0:07 make dep 0:37 (make -j dep is unsafe on some architectures) make -j8 bzImage modules 14:16 Total 15:00 make -j8 bzImage modules 2:10 (second run, no changes, spurious rebuilds) kbuild 2.5: make -j8 oldconfig installable 8:51 (no make dep needed :) make -j8 oldconfig installable :14 (second run, no changes) </gloat></strong> More accurate kernel build, easier to write and understand Makefiles, 30% faster than kbuild 2.4. Now the nay-sayers will have to find something else to complain about! I have not tried this release of kbuild 2.5 with a recent version of CML2. It used to work on CML2 1.9.15, but probably needs some work for the latest CML2. Note that kbuild 2.5 and CML2 are independent, each can function without the other, complaints about CML2 have nothing to do with kbuild 2.5. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 iD8DBQE8rYnPi4UHNye0ZOoRArydAJ0SJk5jLqarn1pXtmX0JTsrPJKQSgCfYBLW dD/osGKC7/q3SSlIxVXUEQA= =gZmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
