[ale] Upgrading 2.6 kernel

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sat May 15 17:18:14 EDT 2004


I just compiled my kernel and kept time:

bzImage:

real    6m6.233s
user    5m2.062s
sys     0m38.898s

modules:

real    24m33.403s
user    21m42.767s
sys     2m24.339s

This is on an AMD XP 3000.  The compile took place on a ramdisk.
After all that I only have 300k in swap spaced used.




On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 11:40, Mark Angeli wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> That would work. However, there is a good deal of stuff in 2.6.x that
> has changed from 2.4 and there have been some complaints about it not
> working.
> 
> Once I had a good config for 2.6.5 though, I was able to use the make
> oldconfig for 2.6.6 and it worked rather well.
> 
> Mark
> http://linuxfoo.org
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 11:37, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > When I upgrade a 2.4.X kernel I normally copy the old .config and do a
> > make oldconfig.  Is this the same process for 2.6.X?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > 
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