Hi Tom, On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 19:40, Tom Rini <tr...@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 <s...@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
