[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] MAKEALL: Fix kill_children

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Nov 1 15:35:19 CET 2012


Dear Andy Fleming,

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Joe Hershberger,
> > 
> >> When building in parallel, make sure that we look up the children
> >> based on the the actual process group id instead of just assuming
> >> that the MAKEALL pid is the process group id.
> >> 
> >> Also ensure that logs from incomplete builds are deleted in the
> >> process.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Nice $subject.
> > 
> > btw. is it possible to improve the u-boot build process parallelization?
> 
> In what way?

I recall someone complained the build process wasn't parallelizable enough and 
thus we need this stuff to run multiple builds at once in MAKEALL.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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