On Thursday, October 09, 2014 at 08:04:29 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Marek,
Hi Simon,
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I mean more continuous integration (build testing) of the code before a PR is submitted to the ML. Right now, we all do our own thing when it comes to testing before PR, but it would be nice to have one easy way of doing the build testing before submitting the PR, don't you think ? This might apply to Linux too.
Sure it would be useful. Before submitting my pull request I get all the patches in a branch and run:
./tools/buildman/buildman -b x86-push
This checks every commit for every board that I build, and gives me good confidence that no patch introduces new breakages.
I agree that buildman solves the CI part nicely, but we also have the part where one has to install the myriad of toolchains for all the architectures to be able to do the compile testing. I wonder if this cannot be made easy in some way -- maybe through a re-usable docker image with all the parts in it already.
Best regards, Marek Vasut