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On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 02:23:53PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 09:40 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >
> > Speaking for kernelci.org... with limited time/resources, we'd like to
> > focus less on building (others are doing this faster/better) and more on
> > boot testing across a wide variety of hardware (e.g for the latest -next
> > build, we did ~430 boots on 88 unique boards covering 23 different
> > SoCs[1]).  We're also in the process of automating kselftest runs on our
> > boards.
> > 
> > If we could consume the output of other builders, we'd happily do that
> > instead of doing our own builds.  Ideally, the builders should produce
> > some sort of machine readable data with the build artifacts.. 
> 
> Unfortunately providing build artifacts means you're distributing binaries, and
> so life just got complicated. At least for folks like me who work at a company
> with too many lawyers.
> 
Never thought about that aspect, but you are right, there would be some hoops
to go through if the test infrastructure runs in a corporate environment.
Should not be too difficult, though, at least if the lawyers are reasonable.
And if not, maybe they just need a different set of guildelines.

Guenter