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diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README index 090b65311..c30c1d411 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/README +++ b/tools/buildman/README @@ -89,10 +89,16 @@ 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. -Buildman lets you build all boards, or a subset. Specify the subset using -the board name, architecture name, SOC name, or anything else in the -boards.cfg file. So 'at91' will build all AT91 boards (arm), powerpc will -build all PowerPC boards. +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 +allowed. Each argument will be interpreted as a regular expression, so +behaviour is a superset of exact or substring matching. Examples are: + +* 'tegra20' All boards with a Tegra20 SoC +* 'tegra' All boards with any Tegra Soc (Tegra20, Tegra30, Tegra114...) +* '^tegra[23]0$' All boards with either Tegra20 or Tegra30 SoC +* 'powerpc' All PowerPC boards Buildman does not store intermediate object files. It optionally copies the binary output into a directory when a build is successful. Size @@ -643,7 +649,7 @@ snapper9260=${at91-boards} BUILD_TAG=442 snapper9g45=${at91-boards} BUILD_TAG=443 This will use 'make ENABLE_AT91_TEST=1 BUILD_TAG=442' for snapper9260 -and 'make ENABLE_AT91_TEST=1 BUILD_TAG=442' for snapper9g45. A special +and 'make ENABLE_AT91_TEST=1 BUILD_TAG=443' for snapper9g45. A special variable ${target} is available to access the target name (snapper9260 and snapper9g20 in this case). Variables are resolved recursively. |