New tinderbox.

[JoJo jojo]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi JoJo,
>
>
>    > more importantly, why is sparc64 all green ?
>
>    > (is it because of api etc stability?)
>
>  I disabled the driver build on the sparc64 machine because that box is
>  quite slow to build¹, and so that we'd have at least one build run that
>  is green unless the server build fails.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  - Chris.
>
>  ¹:  Which is odd, because that machine is a Niagara T1 with 32 cores;
>     looking at the time taken for each stage, the reason that it's
>     slower than an average x86 box seems to be that configure doesn't
>     parallelize at all, and each core individually is quite slow.  Once
>     it actually gets into compiling with make -j64, it's very fast.
>     Configure-time dominates compile-time, though.
>  --
>
>
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
>

Thanks for the info, your tinderbox installation/config looks & works great !

A suggestion though:
Put a link at the bottom of the page to x.org wiki where we can put
some Legend & details etc
and the config as noted by you (what was built what was not built)

-JoJo