On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 08:55:39AM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I think I need to upgrade my laptop eventually. It's a perfectly fine
> laptop, but it's from 2019. I'm sure there are more powerful ones out
> there that are still lightweight.
Yeah, I love a laptop because it is nice and silent but no matter how big it
is, allmodconfig is still faaat and takes foreva. So I've scripted all my
builds to go to test machines and the laptop is simply collecting results or
booting those kernel binaries in VMs and so on.
That's how I follow the merge order of when we send you tip branches and I go
and merge and build each one to check for build errors one last time and see
what merge conflicts will appear.
And I can't do that on a laptop. It just takes too long.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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