[yocto] Bitbake and task offloading onto multiple cloud-based servers

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Alex J Lennon <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk
> wrote:

> Can anybody advise on whether bitbake currently supports offloading of
> build tasks onto multiple systems? Perhaps cloud based?
>
> I'm thinking that it would be more efficient for me if I could bring up
> a number of Amazon EC2 servers (or similar) then have bitbake
> parallelise the build onto those servers to significantly reduce my
> build times?
>
> I see bitbake supports a level of task parallelisation on a single box.
>
> Can parallelisation of build onto multiple systems be achieved?
>
> Is it something that should even be a goal?
>

It's not supported today. It could be implemented, but nobody has made it a
priority and done so.
-- 
Christopher Larson
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