[ale] Use cloud guest to compile kernel

[Boris Borisov]

2 days? Not that I have compiled kernel recently.

On Sep 23, 2016 4:36 PM, "leam hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can get a 1 year free AWS option too, as long as you stay small it
> won't cost.
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Is this a bad idea?
>>
>> I need to compile a 4.7.2 kernel for i586.  The kernel config is copied
>> from debian jessie with CONFIG_M586TSC=y.
>>
>> I don't have 2 days to wait.
>>
>> 1.  Spin up a CentOS 6.X 32 bit guest at Digital Ocean with 8 cores and
>> 16GB of ram.  This is $0.25/ht
>> 2. Transfer linux-4.7.2.tar.xz and the config to it.
>> 3.  Unpack, copy the config to .config, make, create package, and
>> transfer back to the i586 hardware.
>> 4.  Delete the guest. I only pay for the usage.
>>
>> I'm doing this on a Digital Ocean guest of lowest power.  Only 0.007/hr.
>> It is still taking a long time.
>> I need to build the same kernel, but for i586, i686, and x86_64.  I have
>> the configs ready to go.  I'm also perfecting my packaging too so I may
>> have to build a few times.
>>
>> I making assumptions based on my assumption that I can use 8 cores at
>> 100% each for a couple hours.  With Azure I can pay for a quarter core for
>> testing under Winders.
>>
>>
>>
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