Config fragments

[Svyatoslav Ryhel]

23 серпня 2023 р. 18:55:58 GMT+03:00, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> написав(-ла):
>On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 09:30:31AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Up until 2023.04 it has been possible to build all the defconfigs but
>> with 2023.07 that changed. Tom mentioned this to me recently.
>
>I'm adding Svyatoslav who is the person that brought in all of the
>config fragments that are going to be in v2023.07.
>
>> Up until 2023.04 we can enumerate all the board configs that can be
>> built. We can build any of them using a single name and a single
>> defconfig. The boards.cfg file which buildman creates contains a full
>> list of things that can be built.
>> 
>> From 2023.07 this changes and we now have random .config files
>> sprinkled about the place. I say random because they are not connected
>> to anything. For example, here is
>
>They aren't random.  They're, just for v2023.07, in configs/ and then
>moving forward, they're in the board directory.  I would like to see
>them in more places possibly, but that's not something I'm sure enough
>on right now.
>
>> board/ti/am62x/MAINTAINERS:
>>
>> AM62x BOARD
>> M: Dave Gerlach <d-gerlach at ti.com>
>> M: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>> S: Maintained
>> F: board/ti/am62x/
>> F: include/configs/am62x_evm.h
>> F: configs/am62x_evm_r5_defconfig
>> F: configs/am62x_evm_a53_defconfig
>> 
>> BEAGLEPLAY BOARD
>> M:     Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
>> M:     Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com>
>> M:     Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>> S:     Maintained
>> N:     beagleplay
>> 
>> In most cases the MAINTAINERS file tells us about each board and until
>> [1] I had assumed that was the case. With that patch reverted, these
>> are the only 'orphaned' MAINTAINERS entries (buildman
>> --maintainer-check):
>> 
>> WARNING: orphaned defconfig in board/armltd/vexpress64/MAINTAINERS
>> ending at line 8
>> WARNING: orphaned defconfig in board/google/veyron/MAINTAINERS ending at line 44
>> WARNING: orphaned defconfig in
>> board/mikrotik/crs3xx-98dx3236/MAINTAINERS ending at line 7
>> WARNING: orphaned defconfig in board/st/common/MAINTAINERS ending at line 6
>> WARNING: orphaned defconfig in board/ti/am62x/MAINTAINERS ending at line 15
>> 
>> But Tom advised me that MAINTAINERS is not intended for this purpose,
>> so the check has been dropped. I am not suggesting we bring it back,
>> necessarily, but if we did, we could use it to specify the .config and
>> defconfig files which are used by each board.
>
>Note that the "N" syntax has been in use, for defconfigs for a lot
>longer, and is why the CI check for unmaintained / orphaned boards
>stopped working.
>
>> *Failing that*, I suggest a new 'name.brd' file in the board directory
>> to contain this information, e.g.
>> 
>> # Contents of board/ti/am62x/beagleplay.brd:
>> beagleplay-r5: am62x_evm_r5_defconfig beagleplay_r5.config
>> beagleplay-a53: am62x_evm_a53_defconfig beagleplay_a53.config
>> 
>> This could be parsed by buildman and other tools, to produce a list of
>> available boards and to build each using a single name (e.g. make
>> beagleplay-r5_defconfig)
>> 
>> What do people think?
>
>I'm not sure I like this direction honestly.  Do we want CI to cover
>these configurations?  Maybe.  But it's just for CI.  Using the TI
>examples, I don't know that you can use buildman today to generate a
>functional binary (and if you can, if --keep will retain the right
>files).
>
>Maybe we just need to make it clear that if you use config fragments
>then you're opting out of CI for that specific platform.  That should be
>fine for example for the TI ones that will be built in OE a bunch
>anyhow so accidental failure to builds will be caught.  I don't know
>about the Tegra platforms.
>

Greetings! Are there any progress regards fragments move or this will hang in mailing list indefinitely?

Best regards,
Svyatoslav R.