On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 10:41 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On 13-11-08 10:18 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > The kernel tree is large and doesn't need to be copied. Override > > the default sysroot handling function to use a hardlink copying > > function in python. > > > > This commit also drops the copying of the /lib directory which > > just contains the kernel modules. We never use those in the sysroot > > so there is little point in carrying those around. > > > > For linux-yocto this takes the do_populate_sysroot time 24s -> 14s. > > Fantastic. One less thing for me to dig into later. I thought this > was already in place, so I'm pleasantly surprised that there was a > time savings to be found!
I was somewhat surprised too. We still need to optimise what we install in do_install since that is where significant gains can still be made. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core