[Development] Proposal: New list of Qt 5 reference / Tier 1 platforms

[Qi Liang]

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

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From: development-bounces+liang.qi=digia.com at qt-project.org [development-bounces+liang.qi=digia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of Thiago A. Corrêa [thiago.correa at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:50 PM
To: Rutledge Shawn
Cc: development at qt-project.org
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
<Shawn.Rutledge at digia.com> 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
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