Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:15:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> On 9/24/2011 9:22 AM, 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?
> 
> 5 hours?  Did you say 5 hours?

Yes Stan, I said five hours.
 
> I have a 10 year old dual Mendocino 550 machine with only 384MB of PC100
> that takes about 30 minutes to compile my custom kernels using make -j2.

Marvellous.

> I'd guess you're including the kitchen sink.  Don't build the hundreds
> of driver modules your machines won't ever use.  That is the key to
> reducing build time.

Fair enough, but I wonder "what" to include in the recipe. If I put too 
much salt or leave the oven for many hours at the maximun temperature 
I'll get a "pastiche" nobody will be able to eat...

So I'm afraid I'll wait for your super-customized ".config" file to use 
it in my netbook, feel free to send it to my inbox when it's ready >:-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón