Hi Ian, [ disclaimer: I don't know anything about arm*… ]
Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> (2013-09-24):
> Perhaps it would be sensible to split this patch up and add the new
> flavour now, so folks can test it, and remove the other flavours a bit
> later on.
looks OK to me.
> My only concern would be the short term impact on the build time.
> Looking at [1] it seems that a successful build takes about 30 mins. In
> the short term we would be adding 3 variants
> (armmp-{netboot,network-console,netboot-gtk}) to the existing 4
> (mx5-{netboot,network-console,netboot-gtk} + vexpress-netboot), which I
> estimate would push the build time up to somewhere under an hour.
I don't think that's a problem at all, is it? Trading CPU/build time for
more hardware support looks very OK to me. :-)
If you're concerned about random joe developers, they can still build
one (or a handful) of target(s) under build/, they don't need to build
the whole source package, so that shouldn't be a problem on this side
either.
> Eventually we would drop back down to just the three armmp variants.
That's the kind of decisions I'll leave up to the arm folks. (See
disclaimer above.)
Mraw,
KiBi.
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
