On 2017-01-02 06:36, Yousong Zhou wrote: > So these default profiles are intended more for defining packages set > or flavours, and along with that have the side effect of > install-images for all devices? It can also be used to define a profile for a specific group of devices (by adding it to PROFILES only for those devices).
> The other thing is that Device/Default of ar71xx has Minimal as member > of the PROFILES and it seems to be just missing in the code. Just a > random finding and you may fix that later if that's the case Yeah, I removed those profiles and apparently forgot to remove them from the PROFILES variable as well. I will fix that... >>> My current understanding is that the profiles/*.mk thing is part of >>> the old code and is to be replaced with the Device/xxx thing. Correct >>> me if I am wrong ;) >>> >>> The conclusion is that for sunxi at least, I do not know how to make a >>> default profile or device to make it easier for users. At the moment >>> we have the alphabetically first one selected as the default but that >>> is just a little bit not easy for all other devices' users ;) >> You can do this like on other targets as well. Make a profile called >> 'Default', select all packages needed to build images for all devices, >> set PROFILES:=Default and it should work. > > This will be ugly because this default profile will need to select all > current and future uboot-sunxi variants. I myself certainly do not > like that. But if default profile is a must, you know I am all ears > to receive better plans ;) It's not an absolute must, but I would still like to have it, even if only for the sake of making the target more consistent with other targets for users. > The current menuconfig arrangement for sunxi target in my opinion is > not that difficult for users anyway. For people building images on > their own, it is very likely that want build for a single or selected > set of devices. I still remember the first time I played with ar71xx > target and selected default profile by chance, and viola the > bin/ar71xx directory had so many images for so many different > devices... Many users I know expect to be able to just select a target, select a few packages and have a build that runs on all devices of that target. Not all of them know about selecting "Multiple devices" and then check the devices they want individually. - Felix _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
