Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Zanussi
On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 11:58 +, Alex J Lennon wrote: > > In the 1.1 timeframe I proposed something similar for a demo/research > > project - I'll just copy the proposal verbatim below in case any of the > > ideas could be of any value. > > Very interesting Tom. Thanks for your thoughts. > >

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-09 Thread Alex J Lennon
> In the 1.1 timeframe I proposed something similar for a demo/research > project - I'll just copy the proposal verbatim below in case any of the > ideas could be of any value. Very interesting Tom. Thanks for your thoughts. > if throwing a > 40-processor system at a build doesn't really help

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-08 Thread Tom Zanussi
On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 21:17 +, Alex J Lennon wrote: > On 04/01/2013 21:08, Chris Larson wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Alex J Lennon > > mailto:ajlen...@dynamicdevices.co.uk>> > > wrote: > > > > Can anybody advise on whether bitbake currently supports offloading of >

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-04 Thread Flanagan, Elizabeth
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Alex J Lennon wrote: > On 04/01/2013 22:43, Mark Hatle wrote: >> On 1/4/13 2:56 PM, Alex J Lennon wrote: >>> >>> Can anybody advise on whether bitbake currently supports offloading of >>> build tasks onto multiple systems? Perhaps cloud based? >> >> I see Chris Lars

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-04 Thread Alex J Lennon
On 04/01/2013 22:43, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 1/4/13 2:56 PM, Alex J Lennon wrote: >> >> Can anybody advise on whether bitbake currently supports offloading of >> build tasks onto multiple systems? Perhaps cloud based? > > I see Chris Larson has already answer the main question here.. but I've got

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-04 Thread Mark Hatle
On 1/4/13 2:56 PM, Alex J Lennon wrote: Can anybody advise on whether bitbake currently supports offloading of build tasks onto multiple systems? Perhaps cloud based? I see Chris Larson has already answer the main question here.. but I've got some additional insight I can add. I'm thinking

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Larson
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Alex J Lennon wrote: > Where would one start to look in the bitbake code to add this kind of > support in? > See the subclasses of RunQueueExecute in bb.runqueue, this is what executes the tasks. For an idea of how to implement opting in to a different class, see

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-04 Thread Alex J Lennon
On 04/01/2013 21:08, Chris Larson wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Alex J Lennon > mailto:ajlen...@dynamicdevices.co.uk>> > wrote: > > Can anybody advise on whether bitbake currently supports offloading of > build tasks onto multiple systems? Perhaps cloud based? > > I'm

Re: [yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Larson
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Alex J Lennon wrote: > Can anybody advise on whether bitbake currently supports offloading of > build tasks onto multiple systems? Perhaps cloud based? > > I'm thinking that it would be more efficient for me if I could bring up > a number of Amazon EC2 servers (or