Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system

Keith Owens
2001-12-28T01:31:42Z

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:54:42 +0100 (CET),
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
>> ..., and Keith's stuff is stable
>> enough that he's now adding features like kernel-image type selection
>> that were obviously way down his to-do list.
>
>How far down the list was "make it not take twice as long
>to build the kernel as kbuild 2.4" ? Keith mentioned O(n^2)
>effects due to each compile operation needing to reload
>the dependancies etc.

I had to choose between helping other architectures to convert and
rewriting the core code to speed everything up. I chose to get other
architectures converted, finding some interesting "features" at the
same time.

The core code is stable and I will not change it right now, I want
stable code to go to Linus. Once Linus takes kbuild 2.5 then I can
start on the rewrite, without affecting anybody else.