[U-Boot] Notes from the U-Boot BOF Meeting in Geneva 2012/07/12

Marek Vasut
2012-07-23T22:14:53Z

Dear Tom Rini,

> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 04:40:27PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > The other problem is how to find the boards that actually need rebuild on
> > per- patch basis. And for generic patches, we'll need to do MAKEALL
> > across all architectures anyway, which takes a bit of time.
>
> I think we (custodians) need to define representative sets. For TI
> stuff, you don't need to hit every omap3 board, but just a handful to be
> good enough. And while my PowerPC is rusty, I know we don't need to
> build as many combinations of boards as we do to be happy in an
> every-patch build (just nightly / once there's changes live on wd's
> master branch would be the world).

Good idea ... USB is generally properly isolated part, yet it can impact crazy
boards, like MPC83xx (well, I still have my shallow grave around, which I left
just by WD's sheer grace ;-) ).

Best regards,
Marek Vasut