From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263128AbTDFV6E (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:58:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263129AbTDFV6D (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:58:03 -0400 Received: from mario.gams.at ([194.42.96.10]:9307 "EHLO mario.gams.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263128AbTDFV54 convert rfc822-to-8bit (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:57:56 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.1 18/02/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: steve.cameron@hp.com cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to speed up building of modules? References: <20030404085740.GA10052@zuul.cca.cpqcorp.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:57:40 +0600." <20030404085740.GA10052@zuul.cca.cpqcorp.net> X-url: http://www.luga.at/~bernd/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 00:09:03 +0200 Message-ID: <7449.1049666943@frodo.gams.co.at> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Cameron wrote: >With all the distributions, and differnent >offerings of distributions, and errata kernels... today, I count >almost 40 distinct kernels we're trying to support, not counting the >mainline development on kernel.org, and not counting multiple >config file variations for each of those 40 or so kernels. > >The main catch seems to be the symbol checksums. In order for those >to match (and I'm not too interested in subverting those), the >config files used during the compile need to be very similar. That >means building lots and lots of modules. (Think about all the >modules which are enabled in redhat's typical default config files.) >This takes time. Mulitply 3 drivers * ~40 kernels * several config >files, and pretty soon... well, pretty soon you don't remember >what "preety soon" means. [...] >Any ideas? http://ccache.samba.org/ Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@gams.at g.a.m.s gmbh Fax : +43 1 205255-900 Prinz-Eugen-Straße 8 A-1040 Vienna/Austria/Europe LUGA : http://www.luga.at