OLPC build creation failed

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Tue Oct 2 12:17:46 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 09:54 -0400, Jose Prous wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies. 
> 
> 
> We did a build using qemu, it took about 3 hours, it's acceptable for
> our needs.
> 
> 
> 
> Now the problem is signing the build. But it looks like bios-crypto
> doesn't work with arm.

I have my XO-1.75 signing builds from a git checkout of bios-crypto
without issues. Think you might have some unresolved dependencies in
your build host.

Jerry

>  
> What is normally done in this case? Sign in a x86 machine?
> 
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:09 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> wrote:
>         I agree, the ratio between emulation and native is not so
>         great, it is
>         only around 2:1.  Having fast I/O attached to your emulator
>         host
>         would compensate to some degree.
>         
>         For those with slow or unreliable internet, it may be faster
>         to do a
>         build in emulation than to use an XO-1.75 over SSH followed by
>         copying
>         the build.
>         
>         The work flow and techniques of batch processing can be used.
>         
>         You can easily increase the number of builders by adding cheap
>         systems, or more emulators on an SMP system, and start a new
>         builder
>         as soon as you have a new change, without waiting for the
>         previous
>         builders to finish.
>         
>         Don't let the good be the enemy of the perfect.
>         
>         --
>         James Cameron
>         http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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