On 22.03.2017 14:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 March 2017 at 12:51, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes:
>>> ...unfortunately the gcc compile farm mips board (1) is very slow
>>> and (2) has very little disk space free in /tmp, which means that
>>> it can't pass "make check" because for instance tests/test-replication
>>> assumes it can write comparatively large test files to /tmp/...
>>
>> That makes it sound like a mips cross build or mips linux-user powered
>> image would be useful then?
> 
> Cross build can't actually run 'make check' and I wouldn't
> trust linux-user to run our test suite. Also, if there's
> no hardware that we can sensibly do make/make check
> on then how much can people really care about QEMU on MIPS?
> (In fact since MIPS supports KVM these days, there really
> ought to be sufficiently capable hardware to work as
> a build system.)

Maybe one of our MIPS maintainers has a clue whether there is a public
MIPS build machine available somewhere? (I've put them on CC:)

 Thomas


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