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

Tom Rini
2012-07-23T21:16:18Z

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:20:15AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Marek Vasut,
>
> In message <201207230347.31993.marex@denx.de> you wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I know. Hmmm, maybe if every 24 hours the auto build infrastructure:
> > > - Runs a MAKEALL on the mainline repo (if any patches have been committed)
> >
> > Certainly ... it takes 16 hours to do so on my dedicated machine though (more
> > now, since I started building sparc too ;-D ). But WD has some pretty badass
> > machines that can do it really quick :-)
>
> Not nearly quick enough for all arches and all boards and and all repos...
>
> > > - All patches applied to sub-repo's (i.e. do a git-pull of each
> > > sub-repo) - If the mainline MAKEALL is clean but the 'patched' MAKEALL is
> > > not, use git bisect to identify the first patch that breaks the build
> >
> > Hm yea ... serverfarm needed here. Badass machines and badass cluster is a
> > difference ;-)
>
> Sponsors needed to pay for such a infrastructure...
>
> > You have c) twice in there (nit :) ). Still, we'd need a pretty badass
> > buildsetup for that, right? But indeed, such an algo sounds nice.
>
> I wish we had unlimited resources...
>
> But then - U-Boot is _much_ smaller than Linux, and they do not do
> anything like that, yet they manage to keep going. What are we doing
> wrong / differently?

I think it boils down to community size. There's a lot of people
building and testing random combinations. There's just not much of that
today for U-Boot.

--
Tom