10684 2016-11-16 13:38:48 +0000 Distributed build support 2025-10-23 15:13:01 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake 2.3 x86 Multiple NEW Low enhancement Future 1560 1 richard.purdie unassigned joshuagloe poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher randy.macleod ross.burton tvgamblin --- --- Yes (doc changes required) oldest_to_newest 68365 0 richard.purdie 2016-11-16 13:38:48 +0000 It would be nice if bitbake supported splitting the builds onto multiple different machines to allow the load to be distributed. With the advent of multiconfig, this becomes something which is more desirable. It likely won't affect normal builds times too much due to the cross compiler creation still being the bottle neck in the build process, parallelisation doesn't help this. The logical place in bitbake to handle this is at the bitbake-worker level. This communicates with the server over a pipe so doing this from a remote machine shouldn't be too different. With multiconfig we already support spawning multiple workers. This bug has recipe specific sysroots as a prerequisite. 87131 1 richard.purdie 2020-05-02 03:01:07 +0000 We now have recipe specific sysroots and working multiconfig. To make this work, we'd probably assume an NFS shared sstate that all the workers can pool sstate to and force all tasks for a given WORKDIR to run on a given host. The challenge would be ensuring multiple populate sysroot tasks execute on each worker to ensure the sstate is extracted. 96897 2 randy.macleod 2023-10-24 14:24:39 +0000 Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99 103051 3 ross.burton 2025-10-23 15:13:01 +0000 Do we just admit we're going to close this?