Re: [PATCH 8/9] buildman: Propose a format for extra boards

On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 08:23:49AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:

It has become more common to use config fragments to extend or adjust the functionality of boards in U-Boot.

Propose a format for how to deal with this. It is not implemented as yet.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org

I think that the first problem is that this patch series is an inappropriate method and place to start the discussion.

I also think this gets things backwards as the common case is "make", not "buildman". We need more defconfig's that are just base + fragment(s) if they're important enough to be a combination that needs to be tested and work. A board is not a time-expensive part of CI. A pytest run is, a new job itself is.