Re: [linux-review:James-Hogan/kbuild-Remove-stale-asm-generic-wrappers/20160119-183642] d979f99e9cc14e2667e9b6e268db695977e4197a BUILD DONE

From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-review:James-Hogan/kbuild-Remove-stale-asm-generic-wrappers/20160119-183642] d979f99e9cc14e2667e9b6e268db695977e4197a BUILD DONE
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:37:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160127083745.GA9933@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3724678.Yr2Z2lv3F9@wuerfel>

Hi Arnd,

Thank you for the tips! I've updated the lists accordingly.

1st priority
============

arm-allmodconfig
arm-allnoconfig
arm-at91_dt_defconfig
arm-efm32_defconfig
arm-exynos_defconfig
arm-multi_v7_defconfig
arm-multi_v8_defconfig
arm-shmobile_defconfig
arm-sunxi_defconfig

2nd priority
============

arm-arm5
arm-arm67
arm-imx_v6_v7_defconfig
arm-ixp4xx_defconfig
arm-mvebu_v7_defconfig
arm-omap2plus_defconfig
arm-sa1100
arm-samsung
arm-sh
arm-tegra_defconfig

3nd priority
============

arch/*/configs/*

Thanks,
Fengguang

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 05:27:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 January 2016 13:35:04 Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > There are a fixed set of config files for fast build tests (which I
> > > selected randomly, feel free to ask me to change the list to more
> > > reasonable ones):
> > > 
> > >       arm-allnoconfig
> > >       arm-at91_dt_defconfig
> > >       arm-at_hdmac
> > >       arm-ep93xx
> > >       arm-imx_v6_v7_defconfig
> > >       arm-iop-adma
> > >       arm-marzen_defconfig
> > >       arm-prima2_defconfig
> > >       arm-sa1100
> > >       arm-samsung
> > >       arm-sh
> > >       arm-spear13xx_defconfig
> > 
> > And there is another set of best effort configs whose priority is
> > in-between the above list and the arch/*/configs/* ones.
> > 
> >         arm-arm5
> >         arm-arm67
> >         arm-mmp
> >         arm-omap2plus_defconfig
> >         arm-s3c2410_defconfig
> >         arm-tegra_defconfig
> > 
> 
> I think we want at least one ARMv7-M NOMMU target in the list,
> I'd pick efm32_defconfig as it has the least overlap with the
> drivers in the other configs.
> 
> I don't know what arm-sh is, but I assume it's a superset of
> marzen, so you can probably drop marzen or move it down to the
> low-prio set. Similarly, the at_hdmac is likely a subset of
> at91_dt_defconfig and could be dropped.
> 
> prima2, ep93xx and spear13xx, mmp and s3c2410 are all
> slow-moving platforms, I would not expect to see much
> results from running those compared to the more active
> platforms.
> 
> The platforms with the most changes these days are omap2plus,
> sunxi, shmobile, and exynos (samsung), followed by some
> that are widely used but not changed as much including
> tegra, imx_v6_v7, mvebu_v7, and qcom (previously msm).
> 
> iop and sa1100 are rather old and won't change much, but it
> can be good to keep them in there because they are for older
> CPU architectures and behave a little different from the
> modern ones. It might be better to replace iop with ixp4xx,
> as this one is the only big-endian defconfig build we have,
> and that sometimes catches build-time bugs.
> 
> 	Arnd