Re: Fw: signed kernel modules?

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > The new kernel build environment is also corrupt. On
> > > this system, it takes 45 seconds to perform:
> > >
> > > make clean
> > > make bzImage
> >
> > And how long does `make oldconfig' take?
> >
>
> Don't know.
>
> > > With the new build system, same disk, same kernel
> > > configuration, it takes 14 minutes. And, you can't
> >
> > BTW, how do you choose the old/new build system with the same kernel?
> >
>
> You can't. I needed to do a `make oldconfig` as a seperate
> operation which wasn't timed. The configuration uses only
> 12 modules (SCSI disk stuff plus ethernet).
>
> > > even see what the compiler doesn't like.
> >
> > make V=1?
>
>
> Try it while making modules!
>
> >
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> >
> > 						Geert
>

Here is the tail end of a kernel build of 2.4.26 while
running the 2.4.26 kernel.

==> BUILD-2.4.26 <==
gcc -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.26/include -traditional -c head.S
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.26/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -march=i686 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=misc -c misc.c
ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e startup_32 -o bvmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.26/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o tools/build tools/build.c -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.26/include
objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S compressed/bvmlinux compressed/bvmlinux.out
tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT > bzImage
Root device is (8, 17)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 4653 bytes.
System is 801 kB
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.26/arch/i386/boot'
49.72user 6.45system 54.67elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
# uname -r
2.4.26
# pwd
/usr/src/linux-2.4.26
# exit
Script done on Thu Oct 14 11:25:54 2004

The elapsed time was 54.67 seconds.

Here is the same configuration, built on the linux-2.6.8 machine.

==> BUILD-2.6.8 <==
  OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin
  HOSTCC  arch/i386/boot/tools/build
  BUILD   arch/i386/boot/bzImage
Root device is (3, 1)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 4847 bytes.
System is 1401 kB
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready

real	16m58.119s
user	10m59.700s
sys	4m33.340s
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
# uname -a
Linux chaos.analogic.com 2.6.8 #1 SMP Wed Oct 13 19:03:35 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# pwd
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8
# exit

Script done on Thu 14 Oct 2004 11:18:10 AM EDT

It took 16:58 to build the kernel (no modules, they take the
better part of an hour).


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

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