Though it doesn't work with make's "-j" option, the build system of OVMF
has an option to specify parallel threads used to run the build.
Using 4 threads to build OVMF looks like a sensible default.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
---
tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile b/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile
index 1ad041f..2838744 100644
--- a/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile
+++ b/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-# OVMF building system is not ready yet to run in parallel.
-# Force it to be serial in order to exploit parallelism for neighbors.
-
XEN_ROOT=$(CURDIR)/../../..
include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/Rules.mk
@@ -10,6 +7,7 @@ else
TARGET=RELEASE
endif
+# OVMF build system has its own parallel building support.
.NOTPARALLEL:
MAKEFLAGS += -j1
@@ -18,7 +16,7 @@ all: build
.PHONY: build
build:
- OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -b $(TARGET)
+ OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -b $(TARGET) -n 4
cp Build/OvmfX64/$(TARGET)_GCC*/FV/OVMF.fd ovmf.bin
.PHONY: clean
--
1.9.1
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