[PATCH]compareboard utility - coreboot

12 Oct 2009


      Hi,
attached patch adds the compareboard utility, which compares a kbuildall
build's variables with those of an abuild build.
The previous version which I used so far only looked for existance of
variables (and had a bug for AMD boards, so some of them lack a bunch of
crucial values, sorry about that).
This version also tells you the values, but converts them from hex to
integer first. While this is not very helpful for vendor/device id pairs
and addresses, it helps because it eliminates "0xa" vs. "10" issues.
It hooks up to kbuildall, so just running it leads to abuild being
called (warning: large set of large trees around), and compares their
output.
The results are dumped to stdout and stored as
kbuildall.results/$boardname.variables.txt
Starting from these diffs, it should be easier to make board
configurations in kconfig more correct.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patrick.georgi@coresystems.de
Patrick