Furquan Shaikh 57ccb9c5e8 util/abuild: Enable abuild to compile a single variant
There are many boards in coreboot which support multiple
variants. When abuild is used to compile a single target, it builds
all its variants. If a target has 5 variants, then abuild takes nearly
10x the time to compile all variants of the target. This change adds
an option -b/--board-variant to enable abuild to compile only a single
variant of the target.

TEST=Verified:
1. abuild builds all variants of the target if -b option is not
provided.
2. abuild builds a single variant if -b option is provided.
3. abuild prints appropriate error message if invalid variant name is
provided.

Change-Id: I3781568c6409c5ec2610a8386a21d86037428e7f
Signed-off-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27215
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@chromium.org>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
2018-06-25 17:41:26 +00:00
2016-10-29 01:35:03 +02:00
2012-11-01 23:13:39 +01:00
2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
2018-01-29 15:35:11 +00:00
2017-06-27 17:04:32 +00:00

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coreboot README
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coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS
(firmware) found in most computers.  coreboot performs a little bit of
hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a
payload.

With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic,
coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly
firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom
bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or
UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary
in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space
required.

coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.

See https://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.


Supported Hardware
------------------

coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Build Requirements
------------------

 * make
 * gcc / g++
   Because Linux distribution compilers tend to use lots of patches. coreboot
   does lots of "unusual" things in its build system, some of which break due
   to those patches, sometimes by gcc aborting, sometimes - and that's worse -
   by generating broken object code.
   Two options: use our toolchain (eg. make crosstools-i386) or enable the
   ANY_TOOLCHAIN Kconfig option if you're feeling lucky (no support in this
   case).
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
 * pkg-config
 * libssl-dev (openssl)

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
 * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig' and 'make nconfig')
 * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult https://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
------------------------------------------------

If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide
to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run
coreboot virtually in QEMU.

Please see https://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website:

  https://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  https://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which
were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply.
Please check the individual source files for details.

This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.
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