On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hud...@linaro.org> wrote: > Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> writes: > >> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Deepti Kalakeri >> <deepti.kalak...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:17 AM, John Rigby <john.ri...@linaro.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> I believe from experience on a local host that having a precloned tree >>>> of for example current upstream linus on jenkins to use with >>>> --reference could be a huge win. We can discuss this in the kernel-ci >>>> session at connect. >>>> >>> >>> Yes, having a precloned repository on master would help the faster builds. >>> CI Maintainers job >>> https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/view/Linux%20Maintainers/job/linux-maintainers-kernel_build-Andrey/ >>> already makes use of this. >>> We have a clone available on master @ >>> http://ci.linaro.org/kernel_git_repo/kernel/linux.git. >>> Please let me know your requirement so that I can make the improvements >>> further if required. >>> Right now you cannot access >>> http://ci.linaro.org/kernel_git_repo/kernel/linux.git as it needs apache >>> restart and I cannot do that instantly as there are jobs running on jenkins >>> . >>> I will fix it as soon as the jenkins have no further jobs running. >>>> >>>> --john >>> >> >> remember that our http: proxy is set up in a way that it should not >> make much of a diff... >> >> The thing is that we have to transfer a complete linux tree to the >> slave node no matter what. > > One could make an AMI that contained some version of Linus tip that you > could use with --reference. It's a bunch of work though, and larger > AMIs are slower to boot so I don't know if it's worth persuing. >
Ack. I sent the same idea to Danilo etc. outside of the thread. I believe it makes sense, especially since we found that custom AMIs will be helpful and probably useful for other issues. -- Alexander Sack Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams http://www.linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
