Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:09:37AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>...
> Actually you can look at this either way.  Consider, you ask someone to test mm and
> they have not built a kernel before.  So they have to:
> 
> download a base kernel, untar it.
> download a RCx patch and apply it
> download the mm patch and apply it
> take their current /proc/config.gz and place it in the current dir as .config
> make oldconfig
> make and install the kernel
> 
> using cogito in a few weeks this will translate to
> 
> install a distro package for cogito, which will probably give you the option of downloading the kernel.
> export an RCx directory treedownload the mm patch and apply it
> take their current /proc/config.gz and place it in the current dir as .config
> make oldconfig
> make and install the kernel
> 
> Which is a simpler process...   Its just different.   
>...


How much bandwith does this require?

Currently, 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 requires 3.7 MB for the -rc3 patch (which can 
be used for several -mm patches) plus 2.6 MB for the -mm patch.

The 47 MB download for 2.6.11 are required only once for the many -mm 
kernels between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12.

Looking at these numbers, the average download required for every -mm 
kernel is currently far below 10 MB.


> Ed Tomlinson

cu
Adrian

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