Developing a device driver for BSP

[Steve B]

Thanks for the quick and detailed reply! That should help.

Steve

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> You can usually get away with 'make' in your build directory, which
> should only compile dependent files, followed by 'make clean' and
> 'make' in the testsuites if you are using them, followed by 'make
> install' if you want to install the new version to your local system.
> Then you could re-link an application against the installed RTEMS if
> that is how you are testing. (I usually stick application code into
> testsuites so I can build it with RTEMS while developing.) The major
> weakness of the current build system for this kind of development loop
> is that the dependencies for changed files do not get picked up in the
> testsuites / linking of executables. Thus the 'make clean' in
> testsuites if you make a change in the other parts of RTEMS.
>
> I often develop and test directly from a build directory. If you only
> have one 'configure' command line, the only times you need to re-run
> configure is if you change autotool inputs (Makefile.am, configure.ac
> files), which should also be accompanied by a bootstrap -c, bootstrap
> -p, and bootstrap. (You can also run these from any subdirectory in
> RTEMS that contains a configure.ac to only update due to changes under
> that subdirectory's autotool sources.)
>
> Gedare
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Steve B <sbattazzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Quick question regarding the development flow for a device driver to go
> with
> > a BSP.
> > Would I need to put the source in the libbsp/(arch)/(bsp)/ and rebuild
> the
> > BSP every time something changes, or could I develop the thing as a sort
> of
> > standalone application and then move it into the BSP tree when it's
> > finished?
> >
> > I might like it if I could do the latter because building the BSP seems
> to
> > take quite a bit of time, unless the make process can see that only
> > something small has changed and only rebuilds what it needs to. I haven't
> > tried it yet so I'm not sure what's going to happen.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Steve
> >
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