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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 6.11
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:49:25 +0000, Cy DeMillion <cyde@loozers.net> wrote
in <pan$2ca4c$cb55c12b$15e553ab$6a2e1ae3@loozers.net>:

> On 19 Sep 2024 12:57:30 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux lm 6.11.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Sep 19 04:20:54 PDT 2024 x86_64 
>> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> 
> 
> Good.
> 
> Now the next thing that you have to is actually configure the damned
> thing rather than just accept the defaults.

Hi Larry. :)

> 
> Question: What is the size or you final compressed kernel image?
> 
> Here is mine (also 6.11):
> 
> ls -l /boot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3216384 Sep 18 06:26 vmlinuz-611
> 
> That's just 3.22 megabytes.  Yours must at least 10x.

$ ll /boot/vmlinuz-6.11.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10781184 Sep 19 04:31 /boot/vmlinuz-6.11.0

11M.  Big woop, I have scads of disk space and memory.

> 
> But this is only a rough comparison because it doesn't include
> the modules, but you must build about 100x as many modules as
> I do.

I build a "kitchen sink" kernel with almost all the modules,
and it takes about 6 minutes.

> Don't forget.  Next time CONFIGURE.

I "CONFIGURE"d several versions ago.  Now I just copy
over my .config, "make oldconfig", and configure new variables
that have been added.

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