Re: evbarm build using exorbitant disk space during build

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Martin Husemann wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:37:55AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>> Possibly dumb idea - How about a tool to plug a ramdisk into a kernel
>> - maybe even with the ramdisk having a magic number start and end and
>> a magic number at the end and allow just concatenating the ramdisk
>> onto a kernel?
>
>Well, that is basically how it is done with mdsetimage(8). The point
>is to avoid storing the ramdisk content multiple times during the release
>build (which happens e.g. on i386 with the ramdisk content module).

Do we build things multiple times for a particular tools variant ?