Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261608AbVEANau (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 09:30:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261611AbVEANat (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 09:30:49 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:263 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261608AbVEANal (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 09:30:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 15:30:40 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Ed Tomlinson Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Zwane Mwaikambo , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 Message-ID: <20050501133040.GB3592@stusta.de> References: <20050429231653.32d2f091.akpm@osdl.org> <20050430161032.0f5ac973.rddunlap@osdl.org> <200505010909.38277.tomlins@cam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505010909.38277.tomlins@cam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1783 Lines: 53 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/