Hi Robert
This is an interesting offer, but it seems to be to almost be the wrong way around. AMD, Canonical among others are sponsoring Linaro; wouldn't it make more sense for them to throw a few thousand $ at a build farm somewhere and provide a work queue for that so that Linaro contributors could do farm based build and test? In terms of their daily expenditure it would be barely background noise. Provide some logins and some resource quotas, a few tens of JTAG connected boards of different types with a variety of peripherals rigged up and you have something sensible for development. After all, this initiative should ensure that they sell thousands more boards in the future. They should also be able to add samples of new product to the farm before general release.
Thoughts?
Joel
If it's to any use for you guys...
I do have some of spare ARM cycles to spare to help push this combined
ARM tree development work, if your looking for daily native build
testing.....
I am in the middle of adding 3 more new omap3 based nodes to my
current build farm of 4 arm boards. (figure 1 a week-end, this is
definitely in my spare time..)
I currently have 1 BeagleBoard and 1 Sheevaplug dedicated to building
kernels for my customers, and these are currently idling about 50%ish
of the time during the week..
http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:81/dl/farm/log/
And then I have another 2 Omap3 boards currently setup to do non-stop
gcc trunk bootstrap and testsuite..
http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:81/dl/gcc/
My biggest problem is lack of bandwidth on my cable modem, so giving
out of ssh access is pointless. But it would work fine as a build bot
controlled thru the web...
For reference, the slowest node in my system (500MHz 256MB Omap3)
takes 5-6 hours to build a complete linux kernel with almost every
possible module enabled...
http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:81/dl/farm/log/COMPLETE-2.6.34-l1_1.0-lucid.txt
Regards,
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Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/