[yocto] Recent build issues.

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

Recent build issues:

- There seem to be a few issues going on with sanity testing:

First, I've made a change to how sanity tests are run on the autobuilder that should speed them up some. bitbake @ -c qemuimagetest creates a rootfs. I've switched this to bitbake @ -c qemuimagetest_standalone, so this shouldn't create a rootfs and should use the one already existing. We should see some performance improvement with this. I thought this had been included in my pull with BB 0.8.3 but I must have not included it.

Next,  the following bugs have been making it difficult to track down build failures:

Sanity Test Boot test returns invalid results.
http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611

Sanity tests do not always kill QEMU once timeout is reached
http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595

There are also sanity test failures in a few images:

qemuarm poky-image-sato
qemuarm poky-image-minimal
qemumips poky-image-sato

mips seems to have run poky-image-minimal ok, but with Bug #611, I can't be sure that is the case and I doubt it's actually the case. My inclination is that there is an issue with arm and mips builds that should be looked at.

- PPC is broken.

PPC is having serious issues that seem to revolve around linux-yocto-2.6.37. Bruce I believe is working on this. Can anyone give an update around where this stands?

I'm running nightly-incremental and nightly now to pull in some changes made this morning and to prepare for weekend delivery to QA. I'll send out those build results on Sunday (or whenever the build finishes.)
-b