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/control.py b/tools/binman/control.py
index f57e34d..b2113b6 100644
--- a/tools/binman/control.py
+++ b/tools/binman/control.py
@@ -628,9 +628,13 @@
tools.PrepareOutputDir(args.outdir, args.preserve)
tools.SetToolPaths(args.toolpath)
state.SetEntryArgs(args.entry_arg)
+ state.SetThreads(args.threads)
images = PrepareImagesAndDtbs(dtb_fname, args.image,
args.update_fdt, use_expanded)
+ if args.test_section_timeout:
+ # Set the first image to timeout, used in testThreadTimeout()
+ images[list(images.keys())[0]].test_section_timeout = True
missing = False
for image in images.values():
missing |= ProcessImage(image, args.update_fdt, args.map,