[U-Boot] Notes from the U-Boot BOF Meeting in Geneva 2012/07/12

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:20:15AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Marek Vasut,
> 
> In message <201207230347.31993.marex at 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