Hi all, This afternoon I've added (yet) another variable into the Balloon software makefiles. I recommend setting it in your Makefile.local. It's called 'MAKEOPTS' and gets appended to appropriate Make command lines in the kernel and bootldr. It's intended to be set to '-j ' to cause Make to spawn off multiple jobs at the same time. This isn't always a good idea - for example, if the jobs are wget downloads - so it has to be used selectively. I've only put it in the Makefiles where it makes sense and a useful difference. It's only really useful on multi-processor machines but can give a good performance improvement. For example, a clean build of bootldr took 14.3 seconds with '-j 1' (the default setting) and 5.7 seconds with '-j 4' on a 4-core machine. It would be nice to extend this to the toolchain build in initrd, but that looked Hard so I haven't done it. I don't spend as much time building initrds anyway ;-) Chris -- Chris Jones - chris@martin-jones.com Martin-Jones Technology Ltd, makers of Solidlights 148 Catharine Street, Cambridge, CB1 3AR, UK Phone +44 (0) 1223 655611 Fax +44 (0) 870 112 3908 http://www.solidlights.co.uk/