Re: Freezing.. (was Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance)

Andrew Morton
2002-12-19T06:35:51Z

"Timothy D. Witham" wrote:
>
> Related thought:
>
> One of the things that we are trying to do is to automate
> patch testing.
>
> The PLM (www.osdl.org/plm) takes every patch that it gets
> and does a quick "Does it compile test". Right now there
> are only 4 kernel configuration files that we try but we are
> going to be adding more. We could expand this to 100's
> if needed as it would just be a matter of adding additional
> hardware to make the compiles go faster in parallel.

It would be valuable to be able to test that things compile
cleanly on non-ia32 machines. And boot, too.

That's probably a lot of ongoing work though.