BSP Build Sweep Report (5 Oct)

[Sebastian Huber]

On 05/10/2020 14:56, Joel Sherrill wrote:

> Hi
>
> The build sweep completed overnight and there were a lot of BSPs which 
> did not build to completion. This is the summary:
>
> BSPs:    192
> Total:   1745 all-bsps-log.txt
> Passed:  1532
> Failed:  212
>
> Failed autoconf:  178
> Failed waf:       34
> Failed (NOSMP):   78
>
> The full summary with one line results per build is attached.
>
> A breakdown per architecture is:
>
>      66 arm
>      12 powerpc
>     114 riscv
>      16 sparc
>       4 x86_64
>
> Execution time of the entire sweep on an 8 core Xeon. This is a mix of 
> autoconf, waf, and scripting:
>
> 356304.80user 89111.84system 41:43:26elapsed 296%CPU 
> (0avgtext+0avgdata 184740maxresident)k
> 6859544inputs+3400037288outputs (6432major+33833619401minor)pagefaults 
> 0swaps
>
> It looks like there is a lot to resolve before the switchover can occur.
I am not sure if it is really worth to fix the Autoconf/Automake issues. 
We have RTEMS 5 for a comparison. The real issues in the build are 
exposed when you run the tests. The linker command files, custom start 
files, boot loader support, and BSP options are the things which are 
likely broken.