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installer/README.md: no need to build manually anymore 

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Also warn against `make -jN stage rsync`

Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@intel.com>
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Marc Herbert 2021-02-26 19:19:23 +00:00 committed by Liam Girdwood
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@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ The GNUmakefile in this directory prepares ``/lib/firmware/intel/sof/`` and
``/lib/firmware/intel/sof-tplg/`` directories.
It extracts what's needed from the output of the scripts
``./scripts/xtensa-build-all.sh -a`` and ``./scripts/build-tools.sh
-T -l``; running these scripts is a pre-requisite.
``./scripts/xtensa-build-all.sh`` and ``./scripts/build-tools.sh -T
-l``. It automatically runs these scripts when needed for the platforms
listed in config.mk and performs incremental builds when they have
already been run.
It does not copy anything to ``/lib/firmware/`` directly but to local,
"staging" subdirectory first. The staging area can then be installed with
@ -36,6 +38,11 @@ firmware, dictionaries and topologies. As usual with Make, it's possible
to invoke individual targets. Find a list of targets at the top of
GNUMakefile.
You can use `make -jN stage` to build multiple platforms faster but do
*not* `make -jN stage rsync` as this will start deploying before the
builds are all complete. That's because we want the rsync target to be
able to deploy subsets. Instead do: `make -jN somethings && make rsync`.
Sample output:
staging/sof: symbolic link to sof-v1.6.1