buildman: make board selector argument a regex
A common use-case is to build all boards for a particular SoC. This can
be achieved by:
./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev tegra20
However, when the SoC is a member of a family of SoCs, and each SoC has
a different name, it would be even more useful to build all boards for
every SoC in that family. This currently isn't possible since buildman's
board selection command-line arguments are compared to board definitions
using pure string equality.
To enable this, compare using a regex match instead. This matches
MAKEALL's handling of command-line arguments. This enables:
(all Tegra)
./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev tegra
(all Tegra)
./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev '^tegra.*$'
(all Tegra20, Tegra30 boards, but not Tegra114)
./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev 'tegra[23]'
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README
index 93cf28a..c30c1d4 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/README
+++ b/tools/buildman/README
@@ -89,10 +89,16 @@
plan to use your machine for anything else, you can use -T to increase the
number of threads beyond the default.
-Buildman lets you build all boards, or a subset. Specify the subset using
-the board name, architecture name, SOC name, or anything else in the
-boards.cfg file. So 'at91' will build all AT91 boards (arm), powerpc will
-build all PowerPC boards.
+Buildman lets you build all boards, or a subset. Specify the subset by passing
+command-line arguments that list the desired board name, architecture name,
+SOC name, or anything else in the boards.cfg file. Multiple arguments are
+allowed. Each argument will be interpreted as a regular expression, so
+behaviour is a superset of exact or substring matching. Examples are:
+
+* 'tegra20' All boards with a Tegra20 SoC
+* 'tegra' All boards with any Tegra Soc (Tegra20, Tegra30, Tegra114...)
+* '^tegra[23]0$' 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