[PATCH 10/19] buildman: Incorporate the genboardscfg.py tool

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 15:38, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 07:04:04PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Bring this tool into buildman, so we don't have to run it separately. The
> > board.cfg file is still produced as part of the build, to save time when
> > doing another build in the same working directory. If it is out of date
> > with respect to the Kconfig, it is updated.
> >
> > Time to regenerate on a recent single-thread machine is 4.6s (1.3s on a
> > 32-thread machine), so we do need some sort of cache if we want buildman
> > to be useful on incremental builds. We could use Python's pickle format
> > but:
> >
> > - it seems useful to allow boards.cfg to be regenerated, at least for a
> >   while, in case other tools use it
> > - it is possible to grep the file easily, e.g. to find boards which use
> >   a particular SoC (similar to 'buildman -nv <soc>'
>
> While I don't think other tools still use boards.cfg, this will make it
> easier to find out that I'm wrong.  Perhaps once the CONFIG to Kconfig
> migration is done we can move to just pickle'ing the data or similar
> since I find the main use of what was in boards.cfg can be figured out
> with some other git grep'ing, and in turn that's mainly for me when
> trying to convert stuff.  Thanks for doing this.

Yes. I'm excited to hear that Kconfig migration might be done - any
forecast as to when?

One thing we could to is provide an option for buildman to spit out
the various fields that go into boards.cfg

Regards,
SImon