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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: What is the fastest way to build and boot a kernel
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:07:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170418160711.GA29610@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABGNeczftD4Sn+g=uQM7NpxH9pC3i1i110ER4rbu-awcZRkXgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 08:59:36AM -0700, Code Soldier1 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can someone suggest what is the fastest way to build a minimal kernel
> and boot. For example if I am working on TCP and would like to make a
> small change and reboot, what is the fastest way, I rather not build
> the whole kernel.

Why would you need to rebuild the whole kernel?  What did you change
that required everything to be rebuilt?

And a working kernel can normally be built, from scratch, in just a few
minutes.  You do know about 'make localmodconfig' right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-18 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-18 15:59 What is the fastest way to build and boot a kernel Code Soldier1
2017-04-18 16:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-04-18 17:38   ` Code Soldier1
2017-04-18 17:42     ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2017-04-18 17:44     ` Greg KH
2017-04-18 18:04       ` Code Soldier1
2017-04-18 18:15         ` Guru Das S
2017-04-25 13:15           ` Manoj
2017-04-19 10:32 ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-04-19 10:49   ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
2017-04-19 12:43     ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2017-04-19 18:26   ` Code Soldier1
2017-04-20  8:21     ` Sébastien Masson
2017-04-20 16:20       ` Code Soldier1
2017-04-20 16:31         ` Alexander Kapshuk
2017-04-20 16:54           ` Joe Smith
2017-04-20 17:50             ` Bjørn Mork
2017-04-20 19:27               ` Joe Smith
2017-04-21  8:43                 ` Bjørn Mork
2017-04-19 11:24 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
2017-04-19 17:10 ` Stephen Brennan

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