[U-Boot] Removing the need for boards.cfg

[Jeroen Hofstee <dasuboot@myspectrum.nl>]

Hello York,

On 07-08-14 22:52, York Sun wrote:
> On 08/04/2014 06:22 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> Hi York,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:58:56 -0700
>> York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/01/2014 06:53 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>> If MAKEALL/buildman is invoked without any arguments
>>>> (which means build all the board),
>>>> boards.cfg is not necessary in the first place.
>>>>
>>>> It that case, can we skip generating boards.cfg ?
>>>> (We can get the board list by 'ls configs' )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We need a database only when we want to select boards by CPU, Vendor, SoC.
>>>>
>>> Dear Masahiro,
>>>
>>> What is the best way to replace "./MAKEALL -a powerpc" or "./MAKEALL -a arm"?
>>> You must have verified compiling for all targets. I am wondering if you can
>>> share your setup. I still heavily rely on MAKEALL to build all targets I care.
>>>
>>> York
>>
>> I think "./MAKEALL -a powerpc" or "./MAKEALL -a arm"
>> is still working as it was.
> Dear Masahiro,
>
> Generating boards.cfg gives me another trouble. I use Jenkins
> (http://jenkins-ci.org/) for internal development. Even I can manually run
> MAKEALL to generate boards.cfg, the same script under Jenkins cannot. I have
> this error
>
>
> ./MAKEALL -c mpc83xx -c mpc85xx -c mpc86xx
> Could not find boards.cfg
> Generating boards.cfg ...  (jobs: 8)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "tools/genboardscfg.py", line 504, in <module>
>      main()
>    File "tools/genboardscfg.py", line 501, in main
>      gen_boards_cfg(jobs)
>    File "tools/genboardscfg.py", line 471, in gen_boards_cfg
>      __gen_boards_cfg(jobs)
>    File "tools/genboardscfg.py", line 437, in __gen_boards_cfg
>      indicator = Indicator(len(defconfigs))
>    File "tools/genboardscfg.py", line 384, in __init__
>      width = get_terminal_columns()
>    File "tools/genboardscfg.py", line 59, in get_terminal_columns
>      ret = fcntl.ioctl(sys.stdout.fileno(), termios.TIOCGWINSZ, arg)
> IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
> Failed to generate boards.cfg
>
> Looks like the script is trying to get the terminal window size. There is no
> terminal for my case. Checking variable TERM, it is "dumb". I can make it work
> by removing the two lines but I don't think that's the solution.
>
> --- a/tools/genboardscfg.py
> +++ b/tools/genboardscfg.py
> @@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ def get_terminal_columns():
>           try:
>               ret = fcntl.ioctl(sys.stdout.fileno(), termios.TIOCGWINSZ, arg)
>           except IOError as exception:
> -            if exception.errno != errno.ENOTTY:
> -                raise
>
> I am not an expert on python. Can you take a deep look? The host has ubuntu
> 12.04.3 with python 2.7.3.
>

I can't parse the python either, but is this not the same issue?
(just from the looks of it) https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/377897/

Regards,
Jeroen