
Since binman can run tests in parallel, document this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org ---
tools/binman/README | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README index 927fa856acf..ac193f16cf7 100644 --- a/tools/binman/README +++ b/tools/binman/README @@ -702,6 +702,20 @@ To enable Python test coverage on Debian-type distributions (e.g. Ubuntu): $ sudo apt-get install python-coverage python-pytest
+Concurrent tests +---------------- + +Binman tries to run tests concurrently. This means that the tests make use of +all available CPUs to run. + + To enable this: + + $ sudo apt-get install python-subunit python3-subunit + +Use '-P 1' to disable this. It is automatically disabled when code coverage is +being used (-T) since they are incompatible. + + Advanced Features / Technical docs ----------------------------------