Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> At this point, I ran the jhalfs configuration and then started the LFS
> build.  It's running now.  I'll update this when it's done.

Just following up on this.

First, the Intel Atom, at least model D2700, does not have 4 cores.  It 
has 2 cores, each with hyper threading.  This gives the appearance of 4 
cores but not the performance.

The build of LFS went without problem, but it was slow.  SBU was 384 
seconds.  My P6 from 2005 has an SBU value of 135!

I did not build with any testing and the total build time was about 57 
SBU or about 6 hours.  I wouldn't recommend this processor for any 
demanding tasks.

Building the kernel was a little problematic.  I used 'make 
x86_64_defconfig' and didn't catch the fact that this didn't have 
devtmpfs or ext4 enabled.  After fixing those issues, the system booted 
just as expected.

I use a separate /boot partition.  Installing grub worked fine, but I 
did forget to mount /dev in the chroot environment at first which caused 
grub-install to fail.  I do like the grub2 boot organization:

boot/grub/
boot/grub/i386-pc/
boot/grub/locale/

I generally make this partition 100M, but with a gpt partition table, it 
formats out to 93M.  It was pretty full with the Debian entries.  The 
grub directory and config files don't use a lot, but initrd files do:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M May  6  2012 System.map-2.6.32-5-486
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M May  6  2012 System.map-2.6.32-5-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M Nov 27 11:03 System.map-2.6.32-5-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1M Nov 27 11:03 System.map-3.2.0-4-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2M Nov 27 13:41 System.map-3.6.7-lfs-20121122
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109K May  6  2012 config-2.6.32-5-486
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109K May  6  2012 config-2.6.32-5-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104K Nov 27 11:03 config-2.6.32-5-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126K Nov 27 11:03 config-3.2.0-4-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  74K Nov 27 13:41 config-3.6.7-lfs-20121122
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12M Sep 29 02:38 initrd.img-2.6.32-5-486
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12M Sep 29 02:38 initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.9M Nov 27 11:03 initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.7M Nov 27 11:03 initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1M May  6  2012 vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-486
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2M May  6  2012 vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.4M Nov 27 11:04 vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M Nov 27 11:04 vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.2M Nov 27 13:42 vmlinuz-3.6.7-lfs-20121122

Compare the LFS kernel size, 4.2M, the the combination of kernel+initrd 
or the others.  Each is more than 12M.  I'll probably delete the 
redundant Debian files if I need more room.

Next I'll start doing some selected BLFS packages but I don't expect any 
issues.

   -- Bruce



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