[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] WIP: Test version of buildman - U-Boot builder

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Oct 31 23:46:23 CET 2012


Dear Simon Glass,

In message <1351718752-6832-2-git-send-email-sjg at chromium.org> you wrote:
> This tool handles building U-Boot to check that you have not broken it
> with your patch series. It can build each individual commit and report
> which boards fail on which commits, and which errors come up. It aims
> to make full use of multi-processor machines.
> 
> Buildman is not yet ready for prime time. I am posting it now to obtain
> feedback as to its operation and bugs, and to hopefully attract patches for
> these. It does some incorrect things, crashes, hangs, and use lots of disk
> space.

Can you please explain a bit if or how this is related to MAKEALL?
At first (_very_ sshort) glance it appears to be a completely
different tool - but then, do we need two separate tools for
appearently pretty similar purposes?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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