Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini wrote: > Hi All, > > > I know that what I say usually is ignored :D But I like to flood this ml > with stupid(?) ideas. > > The actual OpenWRT considers kernels 2.6.X.Y and 2.6.X.(Y+1) as a very > different kernels downloading the full sources for both. I think that > this is not a good approach because this is time and band expensive. > > An idea should be to download the full sources 2.6.X kernels and just > the patches 2.6.X.1, 2.6.X.2, ... 2.6.X.Y to cover the kernels with > version like 2.6.X.Y. The result will be a gain in terms of band and > time utilization. > > I think that to achieve this the download perl and make scripts should > be made more smart than actual versions > > These optimizations should be applied also to gcc and uclibc and any > other package that provides diff between versions. > > Thanks a lot for your comments. >
would it be possible to use the program called `ketchup' to download kernel sources? http://www.selenic.com/ketchup/ I guess the build system could also look in /usr/src for kernel source, and copy them instead of downloading. /alfred _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
