Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/16] Migration pull request (v2)

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On 11 May 2015 at 12:04, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I'm wondering how Peter does his builds, and if he can share his
> > recipes or build farms for maintainer trees (or just some -staging
> > tree like the kernel).
> 
> https://git.linaro.org/people/peter.maydell/misc-scripts.git
> and notably the remake-merge-builds script, which describes
> the configs I build on my x86-64 box. I also build on OSX and
> on a 32-bit ARM system. (This is all behind the local firewall
> and I'm afraid I can't provide access to other people.)
> 
> The major thing is that buildbots which build for native x86-64
> are almost useless, because everybody tests on that anyway.
> Useful buildbots need to be building for the obscure cases:
>  * OSX
>  * 32-bit systems
>  * ARM, PPC and other non-standard host architectures
>  * clang
>  * Windows
>  * linux-user only and static-only builds
> 
> Unfortunately this implies maintaining an awkward build farm
> full of devboards and other fragile hardware.

If only we had an emulator.....

Dave

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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK