On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Daniel Fort wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> > Whoa, that's very interesting.  I guess I figured that anybody who
> > builds the LBE would be using an i686.  I'm very curious to see how long
> > it takes you on the VIA.  It takes about 11 hours on my Dell P3 500Mhz
> > laptop.
>
> I ran it again so here is an update:
>
>   crosscomp-src         207:15
>   lbe-src               374:24
>   ltsp-src              612:55
>   kernel-src            199:42
>                        =======
>   Total                1394:16
>
> Yup--almost 24 hours. I'm making an x86 chroot build environment on the amd64
> box to speed things up--unless someone figured out an easier way to build lbe
> on 64-bit systems.

I guess I need to get a 64-bit system to play with.


>
> I've been trying to build a 2.6.12 kernel so the Wacom Intuos3 tablet will
> work. I'm nearly there but the last kernel had a problem with devfs. It
> appears that devfs is being dropped in favor of udev--are there any plans on
> moving to udev in ltsp?

Yes, definately we'll be moving to udev.  Just a matter of finding the
time to work on it.

>
> Also--is there any documentation on building kernels in lbe? There were lots
> of tweaks I had to make to get it to work but I might have missed something.
>
> Finally, is supermount really needed? I managed to find a supermount patch for
> 2.6.12, but isn't a method for network booting already included in the kernel?

supermount is used for the local device access.  We're working on a
replacement, but it'll be a few months before we have it ready.

Jim McQuillan
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