Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:58:15 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: [Build Errors] kernel version 2.5.27 |
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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Witek Krecicki wrote:
> > Don't know if this can be helpful at all, but having a "powerful" (AMD XP > > 1700+, 256 MB DDR and 7200 rpm IDE disk) PC doing nothing most of the > > time, I thought it could be doing something useful for the ongoing > > development of the linux kernel. So I decided to do a full kernel compile > > (that is, a compile of the linux kernel with _all_ options enabled to be > > compiled built-in, just a few as modules, those that can't be built > > otherwise). And report errors that can happen, in the hope to unveil > > them and make maintainers aware of them, should they still aren't. > > > > .config file was created the "easy" way: going to all options shown in a > > "make menuconfig" session, enabling everything to be built-in (when > > possible), and making a second pass to check if some options were > > activated by enabling some others. The file is 2206 lines long, but is > > NOT attached, to help save bandwidth. > IMHO building everything as a module is much better in this case. Some > things are working built-in but not working as modules (eg. > probably-still-not-fixed 2.5 IDE with 2 symbols not exported properly). It > would be better to build everything as a module and then check it with > depmod so any unresolved deps could be shown
Why not try both? I do currently use three .configs: - everything modular - everything but no module support at all - everything and no module support at all but without hotplug support
For 2.5 I use similar .configs but without all the things that don't compile for a longer time.
Trying to compile kernels with these three .configs helps to avoid that my fast 500 MHz K6-2 is nearly always idle. ;-)
> WK
cu Adrian
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