[LEDE-DEV] Adding new targets/subtargets

[Weedy]

On 31 December 2016 at 20:23, Philip Prindeville
<philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 31, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 31 December 2016 at 06:13, Philip Prindeville
>> <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I noticed that in Openwrt a lot of the x86 subtargets (alix, geos, net5501) had gone away (well, been combined into a generic “geode” image).
>>>
>>> -Philip
>>
>> I can only guess it's very likely for the purpose of saving buildbot
>> resources.  But I never played those subtargets myself and have no
>> idea whether they still work (they should though)
>>
>>                yousong
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> Pruning useful subtargets to solve a buildbot resource shortage seems like taking a sledgehammer to kill a fly.
>
> Why not instead just add a profile attribute like:
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> BUILDBOT_BUILD_ME:=no
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> Whether it’s still useful to *build* a subtarget is a different question that whether it’s still useful (from a pedagogical perspective) to *keep* a subtarget in the SCM… and these questions shouldn’t be conflated.
>
> -Philip


If this is going to be the road we travel down (I'm bikeshedding here)
wouldn't a  BUILDBOT_INTERVAL:=daily/3d/7d/14d make more sense?

We have more then a few full on targets that for the most part are
much less popular then say ar71xx.