Holy cow… how much time does it take to do a full Linux kernel build from scr...

Marcos Marado - 2012-02-18T18:15:03+0000 - Updated: 2012-02-18T18:15:03+0000

Holy cow… how much time does it take to do a full Linux kernel build from scratch nowadays? #FeelingOld

Ricardo Cerqueira - 2012-02-18T18:42:03+0000 - Updated: 2012-02-18T18:42:33+0000

I haven't built for x86 in ages, but on modern hardware, I cross-compile a full arm kernel, including config and ksym generation, in...

real 1m28.651s
user 5m49.171s
sys 0m27.644s

Marcos Marado - 2012-02-18T18:56:43+0000

x86, old crappy hardware, more than 18h.

Ricardo Cerqueira - 2012-02-18T19:16:23+0000

That's really crappy hardware :-P

Rui Seabra - 2012-02-19T02:03:36+0000

+Marcos Marado maybe you're also compiling too many modules? I bet +Ricardo Cerqueira 's .config may be a bit leaner...