Interesting development regarding b43 DMA ERROR

Kalle Valo kvalo at adurom.com
Sun Aug 8 01:08:46 EDT 2010


Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> writes:

> On 08/06/2010 11:31 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 
>> Interesting. It means some patch that gone mainline fixed it and it
>> was submitted using other tree than w-t, right?
>> 
>> Would you care to bisect this?
>
> It won't be fun as this is a 1.6 GHz Atom and a kernel build is quite slow.

You can always build the kernel in another machine and just copy the
zImage and modules back to your netbook (or even create a monolithic
kernel without any modules). Also there are tools like distcc and
ccache which would help.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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