[LLVMdev] Quad-Core ARMv7 Build Slave Seeks Noble Purpose

[Sean Silva]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org> wrote:

> Hi Renato,
>
> My XU is on build 141 and there hasn't been a single problem yet.  No
> reboots, no crashes, and as far as I have observed no core dropouts (after
> I did the cpu-freq trick you sent me).  Perhaps I have a stable board or
> perhaps it is because of its revision (rev. 0.3)?  I will have to move it
> sometime because it is somewhat noise once it begins to build.  Do you know
> if I can plug in any wireless adapter or if it has to be the Realtek
> adapter that Hardkernel sells?  I forgot to buy a wireless adapter and I
> dont' want to pay $30 shipping from Korea again.
>
> Please notice that I sent an updated .RST edition of my Arch Linux builder
> article to LLVM-commits (for review) the other day.  So the link on
> lyngvig.org will be taken down once the reviewed document has been
> comitted, if ever.
>

Generally speaking, don't take things down; people may have already taken
links to it, and will expect things to stay where they are. When the time
comes, I would recommend to add an "Update: this document has been
superseded by <http://llvm.org/docs/...>" line at the beginning.

-- Sean Silva


>
> I was thinking that it is unoptimal to have two XU's acting as builders on
> the same projects, so what are you going to do with your XU?  I guess one
> of us should do the "make check" thingy and the other simply aim to build
> as fast as possible.  My system is already set up to build as fast as
> possible using ccache.  I think my system normally spits out a build in
> 10-20 minutes, due to ccache.
>
>
> -- Mikael
>
>
> 2013/11/19 Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
>
>> On 17 November 2013 05:15, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I finally got it to work - and my ODROID-XU is now a passive member of
>>> the LLVM builder society for the next week or so, until it has proven
>>> itself (it monitors changes to the SVN repository and builds in my end
>>> without bothering anyone at LLVM.org about its findings).  I did write up a
>>> "short" treatise on how to do it, in case anybody needs to do this sometime
>>> in the future.  I expect it to be finished with the final steps of how to
>>> link into Zorg, once I get that far.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://llvm.lyngvig.org/Articles/How-to-Setup-an-Arch-Linux-Buildbot-for-LLVM
>>>
>>> The trickiest part is that Arch Linux comes with Buildbot v0.8.8 and
>>> LLVM uses v0.8.5.  So I had to resort to using a virtual environment and
>>> install v0.8.5 instead of v0.8.8.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mikael,
>>
>> I'll be matching your XU on Arch with the same config here at Linaro, so
>> you don't need to worry about having to cash another ODroid on your own.
>>
>> After you have moved it to production, I'll use the same configuration
>> and just add my bot-name to it.
>>
>> I'm also adding some Chromebooks on different configurations to the list,
>> so that we have more volume in case some of them fail.
>>
>> cheers,
>> --renato
>>
>
>
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