Optimized kernel builds: the straight dope

[Rocco Stanzione]

On Monday 14 August 2006 7:33 pm, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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> I'm interested to hear (objective, reasoned) feedback on this data and my
> conclusions from the members of this list.

The numbers are enough to convince me that we don't need to keep building 
these cpu-optimized kernels.  It would be nice, though, to see smp kernels 
that don't support 4GB of ram (and that don't incur the penalty for 
supporting it) and those that do support large amounts of ram without being 
smp kernels.  Instead of saving kernel build times etc., more users would see 
a real performance impact for the same number (?) of kernel images.

Rocco