Re: Q: kernel build time?

Andrew McNamara (andrewm@connect.com.au)
Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:35:51 +1000

>I hope you'll forgive me, but I'd be much enlighten if someone could
>give me a hand wave figure for the time it takes to execute
>
> 'make zImage'
>
>on an noname box. (Please specify clock freq).

[...]

>(For an easy bottom line to beat, my 386sx/16 4Mb notebook takes more
>than 2 hours for a minimal kernel.)

A 486 DX2/66 with enough memory and an average IDE hard disk typically
takes half an hour with a reasonably featureful kernel.

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