Oliver writes:
What is a normal build-time for a 2.6.11 kernel with reasonable hardware support (USB, SATA, ATA, On-Board Sound, Firewire ...), with many features compiled into the kernel?
+++++++++++++++++++ I just built the 2.6.11 kernel from the kernel.org bz2 with a surprising result: BUILD arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage Root device is (8, 3) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 5175 bytes. System is 1685 kB Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST real 3m15.301s user 2m52.370s sys 0m20.257s root@workstation:/usr/src/linux> screendump >> screendump-23mar05.txt ----- This was worse than using the debian kernel-source package for 2.6.10! Both times I built everything into the kernel with no modules at all. The previous test included the debian patches to the kernel and putting the kernel into a deb so this is a surprise. Both times I built all of the eth0, USB, IDE and SCSI/SATA drivers into the kernel except for the Promise and Firewire because those are disabled in the BIOS. I also built the radeonfb with sun22x11? font into the kernel and the DRI and AGP with alsa support. Also included were the I2C things for the sensors. Neither time did I include 32bit compatibility mode. The final kernel is 1685kB and works fine with loadlin. So 2.6.11 is slower for some reason or else the debian kernel is patched for fast building. editor@postscript.port5.com -- AMD Athlon64 @2.4Ghz Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL @480Mhz DDR ASUS A8V Deluxe ASUS Radeon A9250Ge/Td/256 Creative SB Live WD Raptor SATA Maxtor PATA IBM/Okidata Color PostScript3 Lexmark Mono PostScript2 Debian GNU/Linux debian-amd64/pure64 sid Kernel 2.6.11 XFree86 4.3.0.1 Xorg X11R6.8.2 1.5 Mb DSL