Simon, Tom,
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 09:38:03 -0400 Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:22:42PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > Hi. > > > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:48:44 +0100 > > Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > At present, as a work-around, we generate boards.cfg if needed. This > > > is quite a slow process since each board config must be fully > > > processed. > > > > > > What can we do to improve this? We only need a small number of options > > > in order to start buildman - things like CONFIG_SYS_ARCH, > > > CONFIG_SYS_CPU, etc. > > > > > > I wonder if we could run a script which adds these to the defconfigs > > > for each board and then apply a patch to mainline? Would that require > > > removing the options from the config.h files? Or could we do that > > > later as a separate step? > > > > > > > > > We cannot add CONFIG_SYS_ARCH, CONFIG_SYS_CPU, etc. to defconfigs > > because they are not user-editable options. > > (They must be always selected in correct combination.) > > > > This is already discussed when I posted the RFC version of the Kconfig > > series. > > > > > > We can easily do > > > > [1] Choose boards by arch > > > > Just grep CONFIG_ARM=y, CONFIG_MIPS=y, CONFIG_SANDBOX=y in defconfigs > > > > [2] Choose boards by board name > > > > It is the file name of defconfigs > > > > > > > > > > My question is, do we really need to choose by CPU, Vendor, SoC ? > > I know they are useful. > > For ex. nvidia developers probably want to build only Tegra boards. > > For me, I don't see CPU or Vendor as super important but SoC is. I'll > often be doing some TI work for say am335x or am43xx and be checking > over those two board configs but once I'm done (or nearing done) I need > to build for SoC==am33xx to catch all of the other vendors that have > boards in the family. > If MAKEALL/buildman is invoked without any arguments (which means build all the board), boards.cfg is not necessary in the first place. It that case, can we skip generating boards.cfg ? (We can get the board list by 'ls configs' ) We need a database only when we want to select boards by CPU, Vendor, SoC. Best Regards Masahiro Yamada _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
