[U-Boot] [PATCH 09/11] buildman: Add a quick-start note

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Thu Jul 7 20:23:37 CEST 2016


On 07/03/2016 03:14 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> For those who just want to build a board, it is useful to see a quick hint
> right at the start of the documentation. Add a few commands showing how to
> download toolchains and build a board.

> diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README

> +If you just want to quickly set up buildman so you can build something (for
> +example Raspberry Pi 2), and don't mind downloading lots of stuff:
> +
> +   cd /path/to/u-boot
> +   PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/tools/buildman
> +   buildman --fetch-arch all
> +   buildman -k rpi_2
> +   ls ../current/rpi_2
> +   # u-boot.bin is the output image

For just an rpi_2 build, perhaps "--fetch-arch arm" would be quicker, 
although I suppose then you'd have to make the text more complicated by 
pointing out that it only downloads an ARM toolchain and so the user 
would need to --fetch-arch again for anything else.


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