Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:18:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2011-09-24 16:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> I don't need nothing special, just to be able to boot the system, test
>> the staging drivers and then remove/compile a new kernel again so
>> wasting the less time in the process would be great :-)
>>
>> Any trick?
> 
> Plug in any hardware that you intend to use with your netbook and then
> run "make localmodconfig".  This works from Linux 2.6.32 onwards¹.
> 
> 
> 
> ¹ http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32#head-11f54cdac41ad6150ef817fd68597554d9d05a5f

I'll test that, it sounds very good :-)

(I guess that "CONFIG_MATOM=y" still needs to be manually added, right?)

I hope that by "cherry picking" kernel modules compilation time is 
reduced significantly. I'll report back how it went, thanks.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón