The time required to make a kernel change, build and deploy the changes for testing should be minimized, and not be significantly more than manipulating and building the kernel tree directly. This involves: - optional use of externalsrc builds - build artefact generation, without packaging - streamlined build and packaging steps - deployment classes
This is considered a relatively high priority for the 1.8 release. Marking as Medium+. Most of this is expected to be incorporated by M1, setting target milestone accordingly. The one exception is "deployment classes". Bruce can you elaborate on that requirement. Should that perhaps be a separate bug?
The work to split and speed up kernel builds has consumed most of M1, bumping this out to M2.
externalsrc builds and the work-shared builds have taken the place of this in 1.8. Moving this to 1.9 to take care of the remainder.
This is covered by devtool and wic. So marking the bug as closed.
Marking as verified as per last comment.