Rebecca: Yes. It is good to enable multiple thread and update ReadMe.MD. On .cmd/.bat vs python, .cmd/.bat doesn't require to install Python in windows OS. edksetup.bat is just a case.
Thanks Liming >-----Original Message----- >From: Rebecca Cran [mailto:rebe...@bluestop.org] >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 1:48 PM >To: Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org >Cc: Lu, ShifeiX A <shifeix.a...@intel.com>; Zimmer, Vincent ><vincent.zim...@intel.com>; Wei, David <david....@intel.com>; Andrew >Fish <af...@apple.com>; Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com> >Subject: Re: [edk2] Improvements to build system etc. for edk2-platforms >devel-MinnowBoard3? > >On 2/21/2017 9:50 PM, Gao, Liming wrote: > >> Could you introduce what change will be done for build improvement? I >am also interested in this topic. > >The first change I'd make is to set 'buildthreads' in BuildBIOS to >%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% - that by itself reduces the build time from >around 7 minutes to 2.5 on my system. I also have some changes to the >ReadMe.MD file to convert it to be a MD file instead of plain text, >which massively increases readability on GitHub. I've also been >wondering about allowing more parameters to be passed through to 'build' >such as reducing the verbosity to make compiler warnings more apparent. >Finally, and this is likely more controversial - I've been wondering if >the build scripts like BuildBIOS should be in python instead of Windows >.cmd/.bat since python is already used elsewhere and is more flexible. > >-- >Rebecca _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
