[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/2] Add script to build common platforms.

[Conor O'Gorman]

On 28/05/16 15:55, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>
> On 05/27/2016 11:10 PM, David Lang wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 May 2016, Ben Greear wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/27/2016 02:46 AM, Karl Palsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
>>>>> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> The idea is to be able to allow newbies to easily build images
>>>>> for common hardware. These images should be user-friendly,
>>>>> including luci and other tools that may aid debugging and use
>>>>> of the platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   buildme.sh                            | 76 
>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>   buildme_targets/x86_64/diffconfig.txt | 26 ++++++++++++
>>>>>   2 files changed, 102 insertions(+)
>>>>>   create mode 100755 buildme.sh
>>>>>   create mode 100644 buildme_targets/x86_64/diffconfig.txt
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> While I've written similar scripts for helping colleagues
>>>> bootstrap a build, I'm not entirely convinced that adding more
>>>> piles of shell script to the build tree is necessarily an
>>>> improvement, if the goal is helping people build an image that
>>>> suits them.
>>>
>>> My goal is more to have an easy way to build a useful image
>>> that should work for most people.  Lots of people and organizations
>>> have their own forks and scripts, and it seems much of the changes 
>>> are just
>>> tweaks how to the core project is built.  If we can bring some
>>> of this into the main tree maybe that will help everyone work
>>> closer to upstream code.
>>
>> rather than making a bunch of scripts for specific models, how about 
>> some scripts that will let you build from a downloaded .config (yes, 
>> you can do this manually, but it could be greatly simplified)
>>
>> Then people can build the latest code from a much larger set of 
>> configs, and tweak a config and then use it over time to build newer 
>> versions.
>
> My idea was to store these configs in the git repo and have an easy 
> way for users
> to find and use them.
>
> The x86_64 is just a starting point.  I think there could be a large 
> amount of different
> configs, for different boards, different needs, etc.  Basically, 
> everyone using openwrt has
> a unique config...I think a lot of that could be re-used and shared.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
The ImageBuilder should be covering this scenario.

Conor