On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 12:40 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ian, > > [ disclaimer: I don't know anything about arm*… ] > > Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> (2013-09-24): > > Perhaps it would be sensible to split this patch up and add the new > > flavour now, so folks can test it, and remove the other flavours a bit > > later on. > > looks OK to me. > > > My only concern would be the short term impact on the build time. > > Looking at [1] it seems that a successful build takes about 30 mins. In > > the short term we would be adding 3 variants > > (armmp-{netboot,network-console,netboot-gtk}) to the existing 4 > > (mx5-{netboot,network-console,netboot-gtk} + vexpress-netboot), which I > > estimate would push the build time up to somewhere under an hour. > > I don't think that's a problem at all, is it? Trading CPU/build time for > more hardware support looks very OK to me. :-)
It's more of a concern with the kernel where a new flavour means the build takes 4 days intsead of 3 ;-) > If you're concerned about random joe developers, they can still build > one (or a handful) of target(s) under build/, they don't need to build > the whole source package, so that shouldn't be a problem on this side > either. Ack. > > Eventually we would drop back down to just the three armmp variants. > > That's the kind of decisions I'll leave up to the arm folks. (See > disclaimer above.) It's already happened on the kernel side (in trunk) so I think the installer will have to change when 3.11 hits sid. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1380038514.23688.60.ca...@kazak.uk.xensource.com