[U-Boot] Removing the need for boards.cfg

[York Sun]

It is. But it just takes long to generate boards.cfg. I am wondering if you have a better way.

York

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From: Masahiro Yamada
Sent: Mon, 04/08/2014 18:22
To: Sun York-R58495 <yorksun at freescale.com>
CC: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>; Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>; U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Removing the need for boards.cfg


Hi York,



On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:58:56 -0700
York Sun <yorksun at freescale.com> wrote:

> On 08/01/2014 06:53 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >
> > If MAKEALL/buildman is invoked without any arguments
> > (which means build all the board),
> > boards.cfg is not necessary in the first place.
> >
> > It that case, can we skip generating boards.cfg ?
> > (We can get the board list by 'ls configs' )
> >
> >
> > We need a database only when we want to select boards by CPU, Vendor, SoC.
> >
>
> Dear Masahiro,
>
> What is the best way to replace "./MAKEALL -a powerpc" or "./MAKEALL -a arm"?
> You must have verified compiling for all targets. I am wondering if you can
> share your setup. I still heavily rely on MAKEALL to build all targets I care.
>
> York


I think "./MAKEALL -a powerpc" or "./MAKEALL -a arm"
is still working as it was.

Isn't it on your machine?


Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada