Fwd: [rtems-bsp-builder] 2020-10-13 09:15:22: Profile(s): everything

[Sebastian Huber]

On 15/10/2020 00:48, Chris Johns wrote:

> On 15/10/20 2:27 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:20 AM Sebastian Huber
>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>>
>> wrote:
>>      On 14/10/2020 17:17, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>      > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:45 AM Sebastian Huber
>>      > <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>>      <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>
>>      > <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>>      <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>>> wrote:
>>      >     On 14/10/2020 15:35, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>      >
>>      >     > BSP builder has 81 failures. :(
>>      >     It tried to build BSPs which no longer exist.
>>      >
>>      > Well that is an easier thing to fix than my concern that it was related to
>>      > giving errors when a BSP does not support a feature. I suppose that will
>>      > show up when the bsp builder switches to waf.
>>      >
>>      > Can you patch ./config/rtems-bsps-tiers.ini to reflect what you removed?
>>      We should try try to reduce the redundancy in our data sets. Why don't
>>      we record the tier status in the BSP items?
>>
>> That's a Chris discussion when the builder is switched to using waf.
> The current data is in rtems-tools.git/config. I needed a spot and could not
> think of another place that was easy and low impact. I would welcome
> alternatives. If this data can be generated and updated or runtime loaded from
> another source, ie spec files, I would welcome this.
>
> The current blocker with the spec files is being able to use some shared code to
> parse and load the YAML data plus being able to load the data quickly. Waf has
> the loading code in the wscript file so that cannot be easily shared and it uses
> saved pickled data which I do not think is shareable.

We have a couple of options to re-use the build specification items. In 
general, the Python module to work with these items outside the wscript 
is in rtems-central:

https://git.rtems.org/rtems-central/tree/rtemsspec/items.py

We could add the rtems-tools to the modules:

https://git.rtems.org/rtems-central/tree/modules

We can read the build specification and convert it to pickle or JSON and 
save it completely somewhere in rtems-tools. Another option is to 
generate the *.ini files in rtems-tools/config.