[LEDE-DEV] Multi-Profile selection support

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 23 May 2016 at 13:38, Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> after a long delay, I finally got around to looking into multi profile
> selection again. After reviewing your code and thinking about it some
> more, I decided to go with a slightly different approach from the one
> that you took.
>
> I'm working towards not only being able to build an image with support
> for a specific set of devices, but also being able to optionally build
> multiple images at once with the per-image rootfs being affected by the
> device profile as well.
>
> This can currently only work properly with the new image building code
> along with having the device profile data specified in the Device
> section, so I limited multi-profile selection to that.
>
> As a next step, I'm going to add some wrapper code to allow the legacy
> image building code to be incrementally converted as well without having
> to adjust everything to the new Build/* chunks right away.

Is it worth it? If there are some targets really wanting this feature
I guess we could convert them to the new Device/* building system. My
knowledge is surely limited but I can try to help with that. I somehow
managed to convert brcm47xx and improve bcm53xx.


> You can find my work in progress in my staging tree:
> https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/nbd/staging.git;a=summary
>
> If you have some time, feedback and patches converting profiles/* stuff
> into proper device profiles will be appreciated.

Cool, I'll give it a try!