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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:20:50 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To:     Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
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        Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] selftests/nolibc: don't embed initramfs into
 kernel image
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Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 05:21:38PM +0200, Thomas Wei?schuh wrote:
> When the initramfs is embedded into the kernel each rebuild of it will
> trigger a full kernel relink and all the expensive postprocessing steps.
> 
> Currently nolibc-test and therefore the initramfs are always rebuild,
> even without source changes, leading to lots of slow kernel relinks.
> 
> Instead of linking the initramfs into the kernel assemble it manually
> and pass it explicitly to qemu.
> This avoids all of the kernel relinks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Wei?schuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

OK, let's try it!

thanks,
Willy