[PATCH 8/9] buildman: Propose a format for extra boards

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 19:40, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 08:23:49AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > It has become more common to use config fragments to extend or adjust
> > the functionality of boards in U-Boot.
> >
> > Propose a format for how to deal with this. It is not implemented as
> > yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> I think that the first problem is that this patch series is an
> inappropriate method and place to start the discussion.

We had a discussion a year ago but it trailed off.

>
> I also think this gets things backwards as the common case is "make",
> not "buildman". We need more defconfig's that are just base +
> fragment(s) if they're important enough to be a combination that needs
> to be tested and work. A board is not a time-expensive part of CI. A
> pytest run is, a new job itself is.

OK, that would work too. It would also avoid the problem of combinatorial
explosion. But I am not seeing people actually doing that, with rare
exceptions.

Regards,
Simon