On 15.09.14 18:48, Alex Bennée wrote: > Hi, > > While I was in-between kernel builds last week I attempted to improve > the Travis build a little. Alexander Graf pointed out we were missing > a number of the linux-user targets. To avoid exploding the matrix too > much I've grouped builds together where they hopefully benefit from > sharing some objtect files. The biggest win however was using a > tarball to pre-seed the sub-module checkouts. I'm not sure if this is > because hammering our git server slows down or just because it's a lot > of data but it was adding up to around half the execution time of the > build. > > Finally I removed "make check" from every build. It still gets run > once in the matrix but this means the current instability will bite > less often. > > I failed in the task of adding mingw builds because it's hard on the > Travis Ubuntu hosts to install the headers/libs for a cross compile. > If someone can come up with a nice solid script that hand pulls in > these dependancies then we can add a call to that for the mingw > builds. Any volenteers? > > If there are no objections/negative reviews I'll push these at the > Trivial tree later this week. Or is it time we create a specific > testing tree for these particular type of patches?
I like it :). Except for the small nit on 3/4. Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> Alex
