Re: Improvements to build system etc. for edk2-platforms devel-MinnowBoard3?

["Richardson, Brian" <brian.richardson@intel.com>]

Thanks for the input. For future reference, you can use the TianoCore Bugzilla to report issues on any EDK II feature/platform. https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Reporting-Issues   

I agree the readme.md should be present, and use markup instead of plain text to work better in github. You can open an issue on this in Bugzilla.

Normally, we ask folks to change the number of processor threads based on their system configuration. We don't add a larger thread number by default, but it might be good to set it '5' by default (assuming a dual core processor with hyperthreading) instead of '1' (assuming a single core system w/o threading). I don't know if this will cause any compatibility issues on older systems, but it's worth a check.

At this time, MinnowBoard 3 build is only validated in Windows. That's why there is no equivalent .sh file for BuildBIOS yet, but it will be added once Linux build is verified and checked in.

Thanks ... br
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From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca Cran
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To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
Cc: Lu, ShifeiX A <shifeix.a.lu@intel.com>; Zimmer, Vincent <vincent.zimmer@intel.com>; Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>; Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; Wei, David <david.wei@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2] Improvements to build system etc. for edk2-platforms devel-MinnowBoard3?

On 2/21/2017 9:50 PM, Gao, Liming wrote:

>    Could you introduce what change will be done for build improvement? I am also interested in this topic.

The first change I'd make is to set 'buildthreads' in BuildBIOS to %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% - that by itself reduces the build time from around 7 minutes to 2.5 on my system. I also have some changes to the ReadMe.MD file to convert it to be a MD file instead of plain text, which massively increases readability on GitHub.  I've also been wondering about allowing more parameters to be passed through to 'build' 
such as reducing the verbosity to make compiler warnings more apparent. 
Finally, and this is likely more controversial - I've been wondering if the build scripts like BuildBIOS should be in python instead of Windows .cmd/.bat since python is already used elsewhere and is more flexible.

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Rebecca
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