Waf Build System Status in RTEMS?

[Chris Johns]

On 21/2/20 11:11 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 21/02/2020 12:26, Hesham Almatary wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 11:07, Sebastian Huber
>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>  wrote:
>>> Hello Hesham,
>>>
>>> On 20/02/2020 16:40, Hesham Almatary wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Are there any progress updates to the Waf build system integration in RTEMS?
>>>>
>>>> I have pulled [1] and it seems like it hasn't got many updates since
>>>> December. I wonder what's still remaining/blocking to merge it, or at
>>>> least push it as a development branch (without re-writing history)
>>>> that others, including me, can use it and submit patches against.
>>>>
>>>> [1] git://git.rtems.org/sebh/rtems.git
>>> technically, the new build system is ready for integration into the
>>> master branch. I would need about one day to rebase and test it before
>>> the push. The integration is currently blocked since Chris and Joel had
>>> no time to look at it.
>>>
>> Thanks for your input, Sebastian. Is there a recommended branch I
>> should be based on? I noticed there's "build" and "build-next".
> 
> The "build" branch contains the state of the first review. I updated
> "build-next" a couple of times to integrate the changes on the RTEMS master.
> 
>> Do you intend to re-write git history in either?
> 
> Yes, when I started with the build system work I didn't expect a more than two
> months review period.

I have discussed this merge with Joel. We have decided to release RTEMS 5 before
we merge a new build system. A release with parallel build systems is confusing
and distracting.

I think we are close to a release if master can stay stable. The milestone
ticket page ...

 https://devel.rtems.org/milestone/5.1

... shows 43 in progress and 2 closed. Help with the tickets will help progress
things.

I am working on moving the libbsd release to the 5-freebsd-12 branch and the
side effects that causes. I will need reports of a libbsd release snapshort
running on ...

 beagleboneblack, imx7, xilinx_zynq_zedboard, qoriq_e500

I can do this for the beagleboneblack and xilinx_zynq_zedboard.

Finally there is the FDT file managements, I would like a resolution on a
suitable path to get FDT files into a release and at least one BSP to support
this. I have selected the BeagleBone Black because I have one to test on.

Chris