From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gateout01.mbox.net ([165.212.64.21] helo=gwo1.mbox.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UcUCg-0000xP-8i for bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:24:47 +0200 Received: from gwo1.mbox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwo1.mbox.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3b9NvY3mPXzfkfGK; Wed, 15 May 2013 05:03:37 +0000 (UTC) X-USANET-Received: from gwo1.mbox.net [127.0.0.1] by gwo1.mbox.net via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.82G) with ESMTP id 219ReoFDh1712Mo1; Wed, 15 May 2013 05:03:33 -0000 X-USANET-Routed: 3 gwsout-vs Q:bmvirus X-USANET-GWS2-Tenant: electric-cloud.com X-USANET-GWS2-Tagid: ECEP Received: from S1P5HUB4.EXCHPROD.USA.NET [165.212.120.254] by gwo1.mbox.net via smtad (C8.MAIN.3.90S) with ESMTPS id XID418ReoFDh3337Xo1; Wed, 15 May 2013 05:03:33 -0000 X-USANET-Source: 165.212.120.254 OUT drosen@electric-cloud.com S1P5HUB4.EXCHPROD.USA.NET X-USANET-MsgId: XID418ReoFDh3337Xo1 Received: from [192.168.1.124] (67.169.86.1) by exchange.postoffice.net (10.120.223.34) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.123.3; Wed, 15 May 2013 05:03:32 +0000 Message-ID: <51931723.5080409@electric-cloud.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 22:03:31 -0700 From: David Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: , X-Originating-IP: [67.169.86.1] Subject: Bitbake build visualization X-BeenThere: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: drosen@electric-cloud.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 05:24:47 -0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080506070309090000090903" --------------080506070309090000090903 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, As a newbie to bitbake and Yocto I have attempted to explore the behaviour, characteristics and performance of bitbake, through the simple steps documented in the quick start guides on the Yocto Project website. As part of this learning process I came up with a utility that helps in visualizing and understanding the parallel distribution of the various bitbake tasks across the build machine, as well as providing some additional metrics and reports. More details available here: http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2013/05/10/yoctoopenembedded-bitbake-build-visualization/ As-is, my thinking is this may be useful for the wider bitbake and Yocto communities, hence I wanted to share on these mailing lists. If there is value here, are there other features or capabilities that would be worthwhile to consider? Any other thoughts or feedback? Disclaimer: ElectricInsight, (the visualization part of this utility) is free but proprietary software, currently gated behind a simple registration form linked from the URL above. Thanks David Rosen -- *David Rosen* | Product Manager | Electric Cloud | +1-408-419-4313 | drosen@electric-cloud.com --------------080506070309090000090903 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all,

As a newbie to bitbake and Yocto I have attempted to explore the behaviour, characteristics and performance of bitbake, through the simple steps documented in the quick start guides on the Yocto Project website. As part of this learning process I came up with a utility that helps in visualizing and understanding the parallel distribution of the various bitbake tasks across the build machine, as well as providing some additional metrics and reports. More details available here:
        http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2013/05/10/yoctoopenembedded-bitbake-build-visualization/

As-is, my thinking is this may be useful for the wider bitbake and Yocto communities, hence I wanted to share on these mailing lists.
If there is value here, are there other features or capabilities that would be worthwhile to consider? Any other thoughts or feedback?

Disclaimer: ElectricInsight, (the visualization part of this utility) is free but proprietary software, currently gated behind a simple registration form linked from the URL above.

Thanks

David Rosen

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David Rosen | Product Manager | Electric Cloud | +1-408-419-4313 | drosen@electric-cloud.com
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