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

[Chris Johns]

On 15/10/20 5:26 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 15/10/2020 08:23, Chris Johns wrote:
> 
>> On 15/10/20 5:15 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> On 15/10/2020 08:05, Chris Johns wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15/10/20 4:35 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>> How long does this code take to load the build spec files in rtems.git?
>>>>
>>> It uses an item cache in pickle format. If you start with an empty cache it
>>> needs a couple of seconds. Once the cache is set up it loads in less than half a
>>> second.
>> Oh nice, that functionality is part of this code? I had (incorrectly it seems)
>> assumed the dependency checking was being done by waf.
> The wscript uses one pickle file for the complete build specification. The
> rtemsspec/item uses one pickle file per directory. This allows faster updates if
> you just modify just one file of the specification.

Could the module be exported or published from rtems-central into rtems-tools to
it can used? Placing it into rtemstoolkit/rtemsspec/items.py to rtems-tools and
the tool kit can use it?

Chris