[PATCH 4/6] build: Add support to make bootloader images

[Chris Johns]

On 7/3/2024 5:27 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 07.03.24 02:09, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 6/3/2024 8:33 am, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>> If script generation needs to be done, it should be implemented in
>>> Python with input from the yml spec item as necessary to fill out a
>>> templated script with variables to customize for the BSP, and with
>>> appropriate injection of comments etc to allow traceability backward
>>> to the original source data and source program that generated the
>>> script.
>> We cannot import the YML data in external code without coping it as it all
>> resides in the wscript file. I would prefer seeing the YML python support moved
>> into `spec` as modules with unitests that can be imported. This would allow us
>> to add eco-system tools to support, manage and use the YML data.
> 
> The module to work with specification items is here:
> 
> https://github.com/RTEMS/rtems-central/blob/master/rtemsspec/items.py
> 
> This stuff has tests, code formatting, static analysis, and even a CI script.

This does not help rtens.git ans that is the scope of this patch set.

> Independent of this, working with the build specification items would be the
> wrong approach. You need the input of a configured BSP.

I do not understand what this means. What is the "input of a configured BSP"?

Chris