[PATCH] buildman: Add a way to build a particular target

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 at 09:37, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:07:22AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 16:54, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 04:42:30PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > Hi Tom,
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 12:53, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Tom,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 07:20, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:26:16AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > At present buildman only supports building the default target. Generally
> > > > > > > > this is what is wanted, but in some cases boards erroneously have a
> > > > > > > > different target for product extra files.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Add a --target option to help. Also add a comment indicating which
> > > > > > > > letters are free for new options.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > How do you use this? It would be nice to be able to do "--target
> > > > > > > u-boot-initial-env" for example for converting and verifying the
> > > > > > > conversion of boards to plain text environment. Except the list of
> > > > > > > artifacts that are kept isn't updated with that string as well. And
> > > > > > > FWIW, is this for a case not solved by CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's related to the problem where colibri-imx8 doesn't actually build
> > > > > > an image with the default boot target.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't recall if there's a good reason for imx8 not setting
> > > > > CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET to something, but that sounds like how to solve this
> > > > > problem. "make all" should work, normally.
> > > >
> > > > Even if it did, the build fails the first time. It just needs to be fixed/
> > >
> > > Yes, there's both the problem of CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET not being set and
> > > then whatever issues there are with configuring access to the blobs
> > > especially when they exist and aren't faked via BINMAN_ALLOW_MISSING.
> > > IIRC Toradex does weekly builds of top of tree, via OpenEmbedded / Yocto
> > > so there's not some bitrot here to be fixed, just smoothing out
> > > integration.
> >
> > To me, BUILD_TARGET is a pre-Binman construction and we should just
> > use binman to make sure that the default target builds a bootable
> > image.
>
> Well, no. Assuming that doc/board/toradex/colibri-imx8x.rst is correct
> then CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET should be set to "u-boot-dtb.imx" so that
> "make" just works like other platforms. If there's some other target
> actually in use, that should be what's put in CONFIG_BUILD_TARGETS and
> in turn binman will get invoked as needed.

I suspect the real issue here is that it has not been converted to binman yet.

But adding BUILD_TARGET just causes the build to fail...I already
reported that to Francesco.

Regards,
Simon