Re: Consolidating armhf installer flavours
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 12:40 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> [ disclaimer: I don't know anything about arm*… ]
>
> Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> (2013-09-24):
> > Perhaps it would be sensible to split this patch up and add the new
> > flavour now, so folks can test it, and remove the other flavours a bit
> > later on.
>
> looks OK to me.
>
> > My only concern would be the short term impact on the build time.
> > Looking at [1] it seems that a successful build takes about 30 mins. In
> > the short term we would be adding 3 variants
> > (armmp-{netboot,network-console,netboot-gtk}) to the existing 4
> > (mx5-{netboot,network-console,netboot-gtk} + vexpress-netboot), which I
> > estimate would push the build time up to somewhere under an hour.
>
> I don't think that's a problem at all, is it? Trading CPU/build time for
> more hardware support looks very OK to me. :-)
It's more of a concern with the kernel where a new flavour means the
build takes 4 days intsead of 3 ;-)
> If you're concerned about random joe developers, they can still build
> one (or a handful) of target(s) under build/, they don't need to build
> the whole source package, so that shouldn't be a problem on this side
> either.
Ack.
> > Eventually we would drop back down to just the three armmp variants.
>
> That's the kind of decisions I'll leave up to the arm folks. (See
> disclaimer above.)
It's already happened on the kernel side (in trunk) so I think the
installer will have to change when 3.11 hits sid.
Ian.
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