Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

From: Russell King
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 07:26:01 EST


On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:06:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> >We know that the -mm tree is pretty much useless in terms of code
> >coverage for ARM, and it's getting increasingly unlikely that anything
> >short of a build of all ARM defconfigs will pick up on merge issues -
> >which is a lot of CPU cycles, and I'm not going to insist its something
> >that should be done.
>
>
> If you need help in that area (build-testing ARM), surely we can find
> some fast machines that can do builds for you. Any interest?

It would probably make some sense - it would help to get hold of the
infrastructure that armlinux.simtec.co.uk uses to run their test builds
of Linus' tree and apply it (on a separate machine) to -mm (or
indeed whatever other) kernels.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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