[LinuxBIOS] issue 20, island aruma update

[Ronald G Minnich]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> [051123 21:26]:
> 
>>>when we have the tree in it's old well-known marvelous state again we
>>>should require that every patch that goes into the tree from the tracker
>>>is proven to break nothing by attaching an abuild of the whole tree
>>>before and after the patch. This is 10min work for that one developer
>>>per patch, but safes weeks for all of us.
>>
>>What do you plan to do for archs that need a cross compiler?
> 
> 
> Hm. We could put out a close description of how to build cross compilers
> for the suite or allow developers to submit their patches and get the
> results to it from the linuxbios.org machine.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 

The thing is, it's just not possible to be casual about patches any 
more, as we were in the past. We've had the megapatch mess on our hands 
for almost 2 months, the tree is still a mess, and it's very hard to dig 
out. A BIOS is a much more sensitive piece of software than an operating 
system. You screw up the BIOS, you've got a lot of dead hardware on your 
hands and there is no way out. I think placing some sort of burden of 
proof on committers is a good idea. We've got to get this under control.

ron