For real auto test, it's very different to run between on real hardware and on other emulator solutions.
But I agree with Thiago that emulator solutions is better than real hardware for CI, CI can't be too slow on some specific platforms. We really need to have daily build and auto test running on some selected hardware platforms, but not in CI. At least it could give some feedback to the developers who focus on those specific platforms. We did that before for symbian/meego. Regards, Liang ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Thiago A. Corrêa [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:50 PM To: Rutledge Shawn Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Development] Proposal: New list of Qt 5 reference / Tier 1 platforms Hi On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Rutledge Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well it's so uncommon to do builds right on the ARM platform, and maybe our > CI is not currently set up to cross-compile on one platform and run tests on > another? But it's probably possible to do with a few Raspberry Pi's or some > sort of ARM-based blade server, as long as it has enough storage and RAM and > ethernet, just like the other platforms. Then install one of the more > complete ARM distros like Debian or Arch that actually has a compiler, and > icecream. But it might still slow down the overall CI process unless there > are enough of them to run in parallel. > Compiling on the target is very unusual, and slow. Crosscompiling + running tests on qemu looks like a better option IMHO. Kind Regards, Thiago A. Correa _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
