Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:35:32 -0700 | Subject | Re: milstone reached: ia64 linux builds out of Linus' tree |
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>>>>> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:06:18 +1000, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:
>>>>> "David" == David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:
David> Now that Linus' tree works for ia64, the next question is how David> we can keep it that way. I think it would be useful to have David> someone setup a cron job which does daily builds/automated David> tests off of Linus tree. If something breaks, the person doing David> this could perhaps come up with a minimal patch which gets David> Linus' tree to build again (and submit a patch to the David> appropriate maintainer, with cc to the linux-ia64 list). I David> plan on continuing to put out roughly monthly ia64-specific David> patches and during those normal cycles, I'd then integrate the David> "quick fix up" patches as needed. Does this sound reasonable? David> Anybody want to volunteer for this "Linus watchdog" role?
Peter> We can do this. We're tracking Linus's tree anyway for the work we're Peter> doing.
Excellent!
Peter> We'd probably do daily automated builds to check that the kernel Peter> still compiles cleanly for HPSIM, DIG, and ZX1, but test only weekly.
Sounds reasonable. Except doing a boot/halt cycle on the simulator should be easy to automate, no? The simulator can actually catch a surprising number of problems.
Peter> If you have anyu specific configuration options you think should be Peter> included, let us know.
Nothing in particular, though it would be good to cover UP, MP, 16, and 64KB page sizes (not in all permutations, of course).
Thanks,
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