On 04/15/2014 03:54 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:52:14 -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:12:54PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > >> I do 'allmodconfig' >> builds all the time, with over 3000 modules. The build works just fine >> on "modern" hardware. > >> I'd argue that your build systems need to get faster, the laptop I'm >> typing this on can do a full modconfig build, with over 3000 modules, in >> around 20 minutes. My build server in the cloud can do that in less >> than 5 minutes, and that's not a very fast machine these days. > > Electricity isn't free, hardware isn't free, rack slot count is finite > and server room space is limited over here. > > I don't quite see why we should invest in new hardware to shorten the > build times, if the same can be achieved with our current hardware > simply with better configuration files. Plus there is no reason to > choose between the two. We can have new hardware _and_ better configs > and improve the build times further :-) So your proposal is off-topic > to some degree. > > And really, I don't see why I should have to wait for 10 minutes for my > build to complete if half of that is spent building drivers that will > never be used. The fact that 10 minutes is "reasonable" is irrelevant. > > Of course, if the Linux Foundation, or you personally, are willing to > buy me a brand new workstation with more CPU power than I currently > have, I'll gladly accept. You can also donate your powerful laptop to > the OBS project, they'll be happy to add it to their build farm ;-)
hey, over here also... I'd like a new fast laptop that does decent allmodconfig build times. :) [e.g., a core i7 cpu and ssd and lots of RAM] -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
