kbuild-progress

The progress bar for Linux kernel building.

[DEPRECATED]

There is a successor tool that works with a more efficient algorithm. See below.

https://github.com/sititou70/kbuild-progress

install

npm install -g kbuild-progress

usage

kbuild-progress [kernel make arguments...]

1. Move to your Linux kernel source tree.
2. Setup .config file and make kernel.
3. Run kbuild-progress, then this tool will begin to monitor kernel building progress. I recommend doing this step in another terminal session(eg. another terminal tab, tmux window or pane).

example

[tab1]
$ cd linux-5.6.7
$ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- defconfig
$ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- -j4 vmlinux

[tab2]
$ cd linux-5.6.7
$ kbuild-progress ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- -j4 vmlinux

Licence

MIT