[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 08:16:12AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Running a full MAKEALL for all architectures and boards, for all
> > (> 40) repositories, every 24 hours, requires more CPU and I/O cycles
> > that we can currently afford.
> 
> MAKEALL is indeed consuming.  But I wanted to follow up here on
> something I've talked a little about on IRC now.  On my local box I've
> cut the time it takes for MAKEALL -a powerpc down from 60min to 33min by
> using BUILD_NBUILDS=6 BUILD_NCPUS=1 (on a 6 processor (grep -c processor
> /proc/cpuinfo)) box.  I've seen similar reductions on my just TI parts
> builds.  Not that this solves all of our problems, but it should help.

So, we discussed with WD on jabber (yay, so many communication protocols 
involved ;-) ) and we figured out that some boards will simply get broken by the 
DM. So we'll be able to carve those out and trim down the build times.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut