From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262120AbTDXJOZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:14:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262272AbTDXJOZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:14:25 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.122]:19335 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262120AbTDXJOY (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:14:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:26:17 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: John Cherry Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Can one build 2.5.68 with allyesconfig? Message-ID: <20030424092617.GC17751@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <3EA5AABF.4090303@techsource.com> <1051127561.20214.20.camel@cherrypit.pdx.osdl.net> <20030423204828.GC26678@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1051142471.20793.17.camel@cherrypit.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1051142471.20793.17.camel@cherrypit.pdx.osdl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 April 2003 17:01:12 -0700, John Cherry wrote: > > No. I think Randy Dunlap replied earlier that he spent considerable > time weeding out broken drivers from an allyesconfig configuration. Yes, it takes manual inspection of some 30 failures, each costing just a minute or so. But the compile time between those really hurts, it generates many context switches for my brain. > This still did not result in a bootable image. Which may be a good thing. 28MB would have used all my memory not too long ago. :) > If you want to build with allyesconfig and continue on when you run into > errors, just use the -k (keep going) option with make. Good idea. Maybe that can cut down the context switches. > Feel free to hack on the compregress.sh script to produce compilation > results that would benefit what you are doing. It lives on the > stability page. Will do. Thank you! Jörn -- And spam is a useful source of entropy for /dev/random too! -- Jasmine Strong