Arch kernel compile = easy as apple pie

[marscay]

not much of a thread really but tonight i decided to compile my first kernel (2.6.25.4) under Arch after moving to 8GB DDR2 goodness so i can torture this box with plenty of VM's - manual compile not through ABS.

easiest compile you will ever come across, i've been through pretty much all the distros and compiled kernels on all of them and Arch continues to amaze me with the approach to pretty much every aspect .....simple & extremely functional.

the distro is so kickass i'm surprised more don't flock to it.

 

[marscay]

Um... if you're not using ABS, then I don't see how it can be any easier - considering it is exactly the same process irrelevant of distro.

i.e.
make menuconfig (or make config or make xconfig, etc)
<edit config by hand>
make -j3 (there are options for make, but this is my preference)
make modules modules_install

then copy bzImage and System.map to /boot and ammend /boot/grub/menu.lst accordingly.

Same tools as every other distro, same process.

i was waiting for it

and of course you're completely right, just wanted to start a pro Arch thread and i had nothing else to talk about....as i said it's a BS thread

look at the time when i started the thread, just finished watching the celtics do the lakers ....i was pretty frazzled and rebuilt my nix box in insane time for something to do.....i just love Arch i guess.

i have a global -j10 for my make preferences with the quad - works nicely.

 

[marscay]

What have you turned on in the new kernel that isnt on in the stock kernel? for the 8gb ram i assume your running 64bit rather than the highmem option? So is it the kernel KVM stuff your playing with for your virtual machines? Would be interested to know how kvm performs in comparison to virtualbox/vmware etc

actually using PAE in 32bit right now, my box is so fast anyway i've never noticed any boost with the 64bit libs and i get no niggling incompatibilities.

but yeh i am messing around with different things on the kernel, KVM being amongst them.