On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:20:15AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Marek Vasut, > > In message <201207230347.31993.ma...@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 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
