Hi, On 25 April 2016 at 10:41, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote: > > On 04/11/2016 10:48 AM, Stephen Warren wrote: >> >> From: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com> >> >> One use-case for buildman is to continually run it interactively after >> each small step in a large refactoring operation. This gives more >> immediate feedback than making a number of commits and then going back and >> testing them. For this to work well, buildman needs to be extremely fast. >> At present, a couple issues prevent it being as fast as it could be: >> >> 1) Each time buildman runs "make %_defconfig", it runs "make mrproper" >> first. This throws away all previous build results, requiring a >> from-scratch build. Optionally avoiding this would speed up the build, at >> the cost of potentially causing or missing some build issues. >> >> 2) A build tree is created per thread rather than per board. When a thread >> switches between building different boards, this often causes many files >> to be rebuilt due to changing config options. Using a separate build tree >> for each board would avoid this. This does put more strain on the system's >> disk cache, but it is worth it on my system at least. >> >> This commit adds two command-line options to implement the changes >> described above; -I ("--incremental") turns of "make mrproper" and -P >> ("--per-board-out-dir") creats a build directory per board rather than per >> thread. >> >> Tested: >> >> ./tools/buildman/buildman.py tegra >> ./tools/buildman/buildman.py -I -P tegra >> ./tools/buildman/buildman.py -b tegra_dev tegra >> ./tools/buildman/buildman.py -b tegra_dev -I -P tegra >> >> ... each once after deleting the buildman result/work directory, and once >> "incrementally" after a previous identical invocation. >> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com> >> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> >> Acked-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> # v1 >> Tested-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> # v1 >> --- >> v2: Add README updates. > > > Simon, does this version look good? >
It does to me. Perhaps I'll add this again: Acked-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> It's in Tom's queue but I can pick if up if you like. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot