[yocto-ab] external board farm

[Mike Woster]

Hi Guys - great ideas here - excited to see this develop. Just FYI,
MIPS offered to get at least 1 MIPS boards for the lab (from MIPS
proper, not from a licensee).



On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Kridner, Jason <jdk at ti.com> wrote:
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> To: Anderson, Paul; Osier-mixon, Jeffrey; Richard Purdie
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> Subject: Re: [yocto-ab] external board farm
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>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Anderson, Paul
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>> To: Osier-mixon, Jeffrey; Richard Purdie
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>> Subject: Re: [yocto-ab] external board farm
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>> > I have a memory that we discussed a distributed build farm. That
>> might be cheaper, and if someone like Mentor were to develop software
>> to run it and open-source it, perhaps that could become part of the
>> Yocto project. On the other hand, it means duplication of effort in the
>> labs themselves.
>>
>> Wind River also has an extensive build farm, automated test, and lab
>> management capability that could be used as well. Let's discuss the
>> operational needs for build, test as well as what board lab
>> infrastructure we might want available to the project and its users
>> over time.
>
> Yes, we all have our internal build/test farms with lab management capabilities.  And we all understand what a pain it is to keep a board farm current, running, and useful.  I definitely agree that we need a shared and/or distributed mechanism to do this, if for nothing else to reduce the redundancy of efforts.
>
> A couple quick questions for the device/silicon vendors...
>
> - Would you participate (contribute to) in a shared/distributed board farm, or will there be IP issues in making this truly affective?
>
> [Jason] Yes, we would participate with at least some of our platforms and some logistical setup support.
>
> - Would you prefer a single shared farm, or a distributed set of farms?
>
> [Jason] There is some value to distribution and a bit of access fairness, but I'm OK with that being a roadmap item at launch.
>
> - Would you take the responsibility to keep the boards in the board farm at current revisions and take responsibility for maintenance
>  of these boards?
>
> [Jason] Yes, for a small number of platforms.
>
>>
>> > As Richard says, I'm glad to see someone taking the lead. John, is
>> there anything specific you need before moving forward?
>>
>> John -- perhaps we can catch up on this and other things sometime soon?
>
> Be glad to catch up on this and other things soon.  At least for the board farm options, I think we need to get some kind of AB agreement before we can get much further on the logistics for making it happen.
>
> Hey, we missed you at LinuxCon Paul.  Hope all is well.
>
> John
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -pja
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