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diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README index 76601902cb..5a709c6ff9 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/README +++ b/tools/buildman/README @@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ a few commits or boards, it will be pretty slow. As a tip, if you don't plan to use your machine for anything else, you can use -T to increase the number of threads beyond the default. + +Selecting which boards to build +=============================== + Buildman lets you build all boards, or a subset. Specify the subset by passing command-line arguments that list the desired board name, architecture name, SOC name, or anything else in the boards.cfg file. Multiple arguments are @@ -138,11 +142,17 @@ You can also use -x to specifically exclude some boards. For example: means to build all arm boards except nvidia, freescale and anything ending with 'ball'. +For building specific boards you can use the --boards option, which takes a +comma-separated list of board target names and be used multiple times on +the command line: + + buidman --boards sandbox,snow --boards + It is convenient to use the -n option to see what will be built based on the subset given. Use -v as well to get an actual list of boards. Buildman does not store intermediate object files. It optionally copies -the binary output into a directory when a build is successful. Size +the binary output into a directory when a build is successful (-k). Size information is always recorded. It needs a fair bit of disk space to work, typically 250MB per thread. |