Fedora kernel bisect advice?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Sep 26 11:39:26 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:10:45 -0400,
   Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>Yes, more or less.  The issue is that building kernels via RPM is
>slow.  Sometimes it's better to just build and install local kernels
>and cleanup later.  That is particularly true if you're bisecting in a
>well defined area, such as a driver or subsystem.  You can just use
>bisect on that directory and things go much faster.

It looks like doing this will be better. It looks like I can do one build 
overnight and another while I'm at work and get in two tests a day.


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