20 minutes? Jeez I remember compiling 1.3.something on a 386 with 4 Mb ram... it took 6 hours and that was a small kernel!
You young things today.... got no appreciation for the power of modern equipment.... *grump* When I was your age we used to have 4 kilobytes TOTAL! And we LIKED IT! rant rant.... On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 09:31, Nick Rout wrote: > yeah that worked, cool. > > much quicker than a 20 minute complete recompile. > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:46:23 +1300 > C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One can compile a new module without a kernel rebuild - even a module > > that has not been used by the current kernel. > > > > You should at least try it - copy the files to the right place, > > make modules modules_install > > depmod -a > > modprobe cpia > > And report back to the group :-) > > > > Also - who here knows about the wiki run by WLUG ? Lots of interesting > > answers. http://www.wlug.org.nz/ > > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 23:43, Nick Rout wrote: > > > I am wanting to compile a module from the latest cvs in order to get some new >feature (module is cpia.o, features are for intel qx3 microscope). > > > > > > If I put the 3 or four files (cpia.c, cpia.h, cpia_usb.c, cpia_pp.c) into the >correct place in the kernel tree, can I just make modules modules_install? or do I >have to make mrproper, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. > > > > > > I read something that made me think the quicker way might work. > > > > > > The current kernel source & .config is the exact source and .config that I used >to compile the current kernel/modules, and cpia is currently a module as opposed to >compiled into the kernel. > > > > > > Answers on one side of A4 by tomorrow please :-) > > > > > > (Dammit in the time it took me to type this I could almost have compiled a >kernel, but then I'd have to reboot :-) > > > > > > -- > Nick Rout > Barrister & Solicitor > Christchurch, NZ > Ph +64 3 3798966 > Fax + 64 3 3798853 > http://www.rout.co.nz
