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Subject: Re: Freezing.. (was Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance)
From: "Timothy D. Witham" <wookie@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 22:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "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.
> 
  The way the software is configured it is fairly easy to
add multiple servers (even different instruction sets) that
have the complies farmed out to them.

> That's probably a lot of ongoing work though.

  The largest portion of the work would be keeping
up with the breakages in the trees.

BTW I'm in Japan so my access times are going to be
a little strange.
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