[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] travis-ci: compile with buildman when running test/py

[Stephen Warren]

On 10/26/2016 12:59 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>> Use buildman to compile any U-Boot binary tested by test/py. This
>> re-uses all the work done elsewhere to make buildman work within
>> Travis-CI, in particular related to toolchain downloading and buildman
>> config file creation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>  .travis.yml | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>  1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks for fixing all of this so we can use buildman with test.py.  My
> only real concern with this patch series is that now that we're doing N
> jobs for test.py, is the setup/tear-down time for each machine causing
> the job to run longer?  Or do things like the "big" powerpc/arm jobs run
> long enough that they're still going when we hit this?

These jobs all take 1-4 minutes each, whereas a number of the build jobs 
take over 30 minutes. Since there's some serialization (I've only see 5 
jobs at most run in parallel), the extra separate setup probably does 
increase the overall build time a tiny amount, but it doesn't seem 
significant.

If we want, we could probably make TEST_PY_BD a list, and have the test 
script loop over the entries, assuming that extra shell script logic 
doesn't confuse Travis YAML parser:-(