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

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:46:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 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?

I'll let Simon explain what Buildman handles better/worse than MAKEALL
but my 2 cents is that MAKEALL is like patchwork in that it's a tool we
all use and many of us wish was better about X/Y/Z.  Unlike patchwork,
it's bothered various folks enough to get changes made (Joe and his
bugfixes last night, I've pastebin'd my wrapper a number of times,
Simon has this tool going).

-- 
Tom
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