[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 07/13] tools: add genboardscfg.py

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:22:05AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:07:19 -0400
> Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 02:08:19PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > 
> > > Now the primary data for each board is in Kconfig, defconfig and
> > > MAINTAINERS.
> > > 
> > > It is true boards.cfg is needed for MAKEALL and buildman and might be
> > > useful to brouse all the supported boards in a single database.
> > > But it would be painful to maintain the boards.cfg in sync.
> > > 
> > > So, this is the solution.
> > > Add a tool to generate the equivalent boards.cfg file based on
> > > the latest Kconfig, defconfig and MAINTAINERS.
> > > 
> > > We can keep all the functions of MAKEALL and buildman with it.
> > > 
> > > The best thing would be to change MAKEALL and buildman for not
> > > depending on boards.cfg in the future, but it would take some time.
> > [snip]
> > > +def get_make_cmd():
> > > +    """Get the command name of GNU Make."""
> > > +    try:
> > > +        make_cmd = subprocess.check_output([SHOW_GNU_MAKE])
> > > +    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
> > > +        print >> sys.stderr, 'GNU Make not found'
> > > +        sys.exit(1)
> > > +    return make_cmd.rstrip()
> > 
> > So subprocess.check_output comes from Python 2.7 and Ubuntu 10.04 ships
> > with 2.6.  This isn't a deal-breaker as I'm working on updating the two
> > calls here now (and we'll set aside mailmapper, that's not going to be
> > commonly used I think).
> 
> 
> 
> BTW, Ubuntu 10.04 is now being supported only for Server.

Yeah.  IT counts build servers as Server not Desktop so I've got access
to some beefy build resources that're on that (and staying there for
some time to come). :)

-- 
Tom
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