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

[Marek Vasut]

Dear 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.

Yea ... I think our community is kinda broken :-(

Best regards,
Marek Vasut