Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] Memory API for 1.6: fix I/O port endianness mess

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 25 July 2013 14:33, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Il 25/07/2013 15:28, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>>> > If you want to prevent minor architecture regressions, add unit tests.
>>> Unit tests won't help with the periodic "doesn't compile on 32 bit
>>> systems" regressions, of course...
>>
>> Buildbots (and having maintainers add buildbots for their trees) would.
>
> I've found that the buildbots are pretty useless for me as
> a submaintainer. If there was a way I could say "ok, tree
> is ready to go, kick off a build and send me the results
> in an hour" then that would be useful. A 24 hour turnaround
> means I've already sent the pullrequest before the buildbot
> kicks off.
>
> Also:
>  * I just tried to check http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/grid
> and I get a 504 Gateway Time-out error...
>  * looking at the latest arm-devs build it's failed
> configure because the buildbot doesn't either (a) have
> a suitable libfdt or (b) have the appropriate command
> to init the dtc submodule. I'm pretty sure I never got
> an email about this, so I imagine it's been busted for
> months.

Yes, we need to do something about the state of buildbot.  We need a
volunteer to more actively maintain it.  If anyone is interested please
let me know.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM