[PATCH v3 2/3] buildman: Allow skipping the dtc build

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 at 11:22, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:57:45PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > For most boards, the device-tree compiler is built in-tree, ignoring the
> > system version. Add a special option to skip this build. This can be
> > useful when the system dtc is up-to-date, as it speeds up the build.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> > (no changes since v1)
> >
> >  tools/buildman/builder.py       | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  tools/buildman/builderthread.py |  4 ++--
> >  tools/buildman/buildman.rst     |  3 +++
> >  tools/buildman/cmdline.py       |  2 ++
> >  tools/buildman/control.py       |  3 ++-
> >  tools/buildman/test.py          | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  6 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> We should probably do this more generically, outside of buildman. We
> have scripts/dtc-version.sh and if the system version isn't new enough
> (and we just need to define whatever the minimum version is), then we
> build our (not currently that new anymore) dtc instead.

Yes I think I did a patch for that ages ago [1], but it was rejected.

I'd be very happy for it to be applied as I think it is a better
solution than this one.

I see that some poor sod tried to do this in Linux this morning.

Regards,
Simon

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20200427002929.239379-2-sjg@chromium.org/