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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:43:43 -0800
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Subject: Re: Freezing.. (was Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance)
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"Timothy D. Witham" wrote:
> 
> Related thought:
> 
>   One of the things that we are trying to do is to automate
> patch testing.
> 
>   The PLM (www.osdl.org/plm) takes every patch that it gets
> and does a quick "Does it compile test".  Right now there
> are only 4 kernel configuration files that we try but we are
> going to be adding more.  We could expand this to 100's
> if needed as it would just be a matter of adding additional
> hardware to make the compiles go faster in parallel.

It would be valuable to be able to test that things compile
cleanly on non-ia32 machines.  And boot, too.

That's probably a lot of ongoing work though.
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