Using some form of sandbox with Python modules is a long standing best
practice with the language. There are a number of ways to have a Python
sandbox be created. At this point in time, it seems the Python community
is moving towards using the "venv" module provided with Python rather
than a separate tool. To match that we make the following changes:
- Refer to a "Python sandbox" rather than virtualenv in comments, etc.
- Install the python3-venv module in our container and not virtualenv.
- In our CI files, invoke "python -m venv" rather than "virtualenv".
- In documentation, tell users to install python3-venv and not
virtualenv.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Move the information about out-of-tree building
from README to the generated HTML documentation.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Milan P. Stanić <mps@arvanta.net>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Milan P. Stanić <mps@arvanta.net>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reformat and keep ncurses-dev needed for 'make menuconfig'
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Packages python3-filelock python3-pytest-xdist as required to run
'make tests'. Add them to the required packages list in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
LTO (Link-Time Optimisation) is an very useful feature which can
significantly reduce the size of U-Boot binaries. So far it has been
made available for selected ARM boards and sandbox.
However, incremental builds are much slower when LTO is used. For example,
an incremental build of sandbox takes 2.1 seconds on my machine, but 6.7
seconds with LTO enabled.
Add a NO_LTO parameter to the build, similar to NO_SDL, so it can be
disabled during development if needed, for faster builds.
Add some documentation about LTO while we are here.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The following Python packages are used by U-Boot, too:
* python3-asteval
* python3-subunit
* python3-testtools
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
At present U-Boot always builds dtc if CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is defined, even
when DTC is provided. The built dtc is not actually used, so this is a
waste of time.
Update the Makefile logic to build dtc only if one is not provided to the
build with the DTC variable. Add documentation to explain this.
This saves about 3.5 seconds of elapsed time on a clean build of
sandbox_spl for me.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
These are out of date. Update them and point to the existing build
instructions to avoid duplication. Add a few that are missing.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
