binman: Support multithreading for building images
Some images may take a while to build, e.g. if they are large and use slow
compression. Support compiling sections in parallel to speed things up.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
(fixed to use a separate test file to fix flakiness)
diff --git a/tools/binman/cmdline.py b/tools/binman/cmdline.py
index 95f9ba2..d6156df 100644
--- a/tools/binman/cmdline.py
+++ b/tools/binman/cmdline.py
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
default=False, help='Display the README file')
parser.add_argument('--toolpath', type=str, action='append',
help='Add a path to the directories containing tools')
+ parser.add_argument('-T', '--threads', type=int,
+ default=None, help='Number of threads to use (0=single-thread)')
+ parser.add_argument('--test-section-timeout', action='store_true',
+ help='Use a zero timeout for section multi-threading (for testing)')
parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbosity', default=1,
type=int, help='Control verbosity: 0=silent, 1=warnings, 2=notices, '
'3=info, 4=detail, 5=debug')