Hi Tom, On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 12:53, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 07:20, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:26:16AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > > > > At present buildman only supports building the default target. Generally > > > > this is what is wanted, but in some cases boards erroneously have a > > > > different target for product extra files. > > > > > > > > Add a --target option to help. Also add a comment indicating which > > > > letters are free for new options. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> > > > > > > How do you use this? It would be nice to be able to do "--target > > > u-boot-initial-env" for example for converting and verifying the > > > conversion of boards to plain text environment. Except the list of > > > artifacts that are kept isn't updated with that string as well. And > > > FWIW, is this for a case not solved by CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET? > > > > It's related to the problem where colibri-imx8 doesn't actually build > > an image with the default boot target. > > I don't recall if there's a good reason for imx8 not setting > CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET to something, but that sounds like how to solve this > problem. "make all" should work, normally.
Even if it did, the build fails the first time. It just needs to be fixed/ > > > But yes, we could add more things to buildman, e.g. it could output > > the initial env as a file for later parsing. > > Well, your patch supports that, if I read it right. It just doesn't save it. Yes, it would be pretty easy to provide a flag that builds that target, runs the executable and puts the environment in a file. Regards, Simon
