On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 19:34 -0600, Antonio Russo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to build a Debian bullseye kernel (with KASAN enabled, but that's > irrelevant). > I'm following [1], and the critical command > > $ fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen binary-arch_i386_none_real > > does not suggest using -j8 (or -jnumber_of_cores). > > 1. Is it safe to add -j8 ?
Yes. > 2. Will this indeed give me the speed up I want and expect on my multi-core > processor? Yes. > 3. If both of the above are true, why isn't something like that suggested on > [1]? Because no-one thought to add them yet. Please report this as a bug in the "kernel-handbook" package (which is the source for this web site). If you can provide a patch, that would be even better. Ben. > Best, > Antonio > > [1] > https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official > -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus
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