On 07/01/2011 04:12 AM, Dave Quigley wrote: > Hello, > I will be teaching a one day class in a few weeks and I am going to > have the students do some kernel programming. Since it is only a one day > course I need to pack as much info into it as possible so I would like > to minimize the build times as much as possible. The modifications that > they will be making will be touching core kernel headers so it will have > to rebuild almost all of the kernel every time. Because of this I'd like > to get a kernel config that can get F14 booting (the minimal install) in > KVM with the shortest build time possible. I've gotten the build down to > 9 minutes and 55 seconds but I would like it sub 5 minutes. Does anyone > have or know of a place where I can find a bare minimum config. I've > been working on trimming down the stock F14 kernel but there is so much > to go through I'm thinking it might be best to build it up from an > allnoconfig instead. > > Dave When making the kernel use make -j8 (assuming you have 8 cores) that should reduce your time by running 8 parallel processes, in addition, install ccache, that only compiles the code if it has changed or is dependant on some other change, this should result in recompile of only a few mins. Albert. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
