[U-Boot] [RFC] MAKEALL Policy
Hi all,
Actually all the new board or nearly is add to the MAKEALL
As point by Kumar it's start to be a huge database
I think we need a better policy to add boards in it
As it will hard at the end to maintain
Personnaly, I'll have in mind to add ref boards or boards that have special drivers or implentation. And stop to duplicate board with the same or near design
Best Regards, J.
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 17:21:36 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
Actually all the new board or nearly is add to the MAKEALL
As point by Kumar it's start to be a huge database
I think we need a better policy to add boards in it
As it will hard at the end to maintain
there will need to be a complete database somewhere with Kconfig support, so the MAKEALL issue is fluff once that's done as it can simply use scripts to extract all boards
Personnaly, I'll have in mind to add ref boards or boards that have special drivers or implentation. And stop to duplicate board with the same or near design
good in theory, not so much in practice. perhaps if you wanted multiple lists: one with "pretty good" coverage of options to test changes quickly and one with all coverage like we have today. for the Blackfin port, i take it even further: i build every Blackfin board for every related variant and every available boot mode. this has caught bugs in the past that none of the in- tree boards were configured for catching. if there was a way to hook the MAKEALL process in an arch-specific method, that'd sure be nice because then i can stop maintaining this change outside of mainline. -mike
Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
In message 20090429212136.GI522@game.jcrosoft.org you wrote:
Actually all the new board or nearly is add to the MAKEALL
Yes, and that's a good thing, as this way all boards get compile-tested.
As point by Kumar it's start to be a huge database
I think we need a better policy to add boards in it
Why?
As it will hard at the end to maintain
Maintenance is not that difficult so far. What exactly is your problem?
Personnaly, I'll have in mind to add ref boards or boards that have special drivers or implentation. And stop to duplicate board with the same or near design
Nope. MAKEALL means MAKE ALL boards. If you only want to run it for your personal sub-set then specify the board list on the command line.
MAKEALL is *intended* to build ALL boards.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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