* Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > On 11 May 2015 at 12:04, Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I'm wondering how Peter does his builds, and if he can share his > > recipes or build farms for maintainer trees (or just some -staging > > tree like the kernel). > > https://git.linaro.org/people/peter.maydell/misc-scripts.git > and notably the remake-merge-builds script, which describes > the configs I build on my x86-64 box. I also build on OSX and > on a 32-bit ARM system. (This is all behind the local firewall > and I'm afraid I can't provide access to other people.) > > The major thing is that buildbots which build for native x86-64 > are almost useless, because everybody tests on that anyway. > Useful buildbots need to be building for the obscure cases: > * OSX > * 32-bit systems > * ARM, PPC and other non-standard host architectures > * clang > * Windows > * linux-user only and static-only builds > > Unfortunately this implies maintaining an awkward build farm > full of devboards and other fragile hardware.
If only we had an emulator..... Dave -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
