buildroot/utils
Thomas Petazzoni 793ee1011e Remove support for the NDS32 architecture
The support for this architecture has been removed from the upstream
Linux kernel, as of commit:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aec499c75cf8e0b599be4d559e6922b613085f8f

Which states:

  The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom
  32-bit RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added
  to the kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors
  were already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
  employees.

  As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
  and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
  provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
  support any more.

There has also been little to no maintenance done in Buildroot for
this architecture in recent times, so let's follow the Linux kernel
community decision and drop support for this CPU architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-06-19 18:30:45 +02:00
..
checkpackagelib utils/checkpackagelib/lib_mk.py: check CONF_OPTS 2022-03-07 23:15:46 +01:00
brmake utils/brmake: print the error code of the build 2017-07-05 00:15:05 +02:00
check-package utils/checkpackagelib/lib_sysv: check SysV init scripts 2022-02-06 18:27:00 +01:00
config utils/config: new script to manipulate .config files on the command line 2017-09-27 22:45:35 +02:00
diffconfig utils/diffconfig: use python3 explicitly 2021-12-29 10:07:59 +01:00
docker-run utils/docker-run: hide docker run command 2022-02-16 22:55:15 +01:00
genrandconfig Remove support for the NDS32 architecture 2022-06-19 18:30:45 +02:00
get-developers support: utils: use python3 explicitly 2021-09-22 21:30:24 +02:00
getdeveloperlib.py utils/getdeveloperlib.py: fix developer being reported for unrelated path 2021-12-11 21:00:29 +01:00
readme.txt utils/readme.txt: add documentation of genrandconfig 2017-07-29 15:41:09 +02:00
scancpan package/perl: bump to version 5.32.1 2021-01-25 22:29:32 +01:00
scanpypi utils/scanpypi: support alternative Homepage format 2022-03-13 19:24:23 +01:00
size-stats-compare utils/size-stats-compare: fix flake8 error 2022-02-01 21:52:35 +01:00
test-pkg utils/test-pkg: add check that show-info is proper json 2022-01-10 08:52:58 +01:00

This directory contains various useful scripts and tools for working
with Buildroot. You need not add this directory in your PATH to use
any of those tools, but you may do so if you want.

brmake
    a script that can be run instead of make, that prepends the date in
    front of each line, redirects all of the build output to a file
    ("'br.log' in the current directory), and just outputs the Buildroot
    messages (those lines starting with >>>) on stdout.
    Do not run this script for interactive configuration (e.g. menuconfig)
    or on an unconfigured directory. The output is redirected so you will see
    nothing.

check-package
    a script that checks the coding style of a package's Config.in and
    .mk files, and also tests them for various types of typoes.

genrandconfig
    a script that generates a random configuration, used by the autobuilders
    (http://autobuild.buildroot.org). It selects a random toolchain from
    support/config-fragments/autobuild and randomly selects packages to build.

get-developpers
    a script to return the list of people interested in a specific part
    of Buildroot, so they can be Cc:ed on a mail. Accepts a patch as
    input, a package name or and architecture name.

scancpan
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a CPAN module
    description.

scanpypi
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a PyPI package
    description.

size-stats-compare
    a script to compare the rootfs size between two different Buildroot
    configurations. This can be used to identify the size impact of
    a specific option, of a set of specific options, or of an update
    to a newer Buildroot version...

test-pkg
    a script that tests a specific package against a set of various
    toolchains, with the goal to detect toolchain-related dependencies
    (wchar, threads...)