On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > btw., the way i tested this in the past (and which i dont have time > to test right now) is that i took a plain Fedora box with a regular > rpm kernel booted up and typed: > > make localyesconfig > > and built it and then 1) checked the size of the .config (it should > be much smaller than allyesconfig) and 2) tried to boot the > resulting bzImage. Did you check the size without the # comments? > > It either didnt boot in the past, or had a very large .config. It > would be nice if you could check whether it does on a box of yours. > (maybe you already did that!) I went back to your old config and I could not reproduce it. But I'll try again with a new kernel rpm, and do the following: # rpm -Uvh <some new kernel> # reboot # to that new kernel $ git clone <latest-linus.git> linus.git $ cd linus.git $ make localyesconfig and see what happens. Is this a good test for you? Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
