From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:56:04 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] New host package: sunxi-tools In-Reply-To: <1360158308-16233-1-git-send-email-bos@je-eigen-domein.nl> References: <1360158308-16233-1-git-send-email-bos@je-eigen-domein.nl> Message-ID: <20130206145604.7ae023bd@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Floris Bos, On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:45:08 +0100, Floris Bos wrote: > Tools for Allwinner A10 (aka sun4i) and A13 (aka sun5i) based devices. > This includes fexc which can be used to compile .fex board definition files to > the binary script.bin format required by the linux-sunxi kernel. > > http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-tools > > Signed-off-by: Floris Bos I think it should be noted somewhere that those tools are needed for the non-mainline Linux kernel for Allwinner SoCs, which has chosen to use completely non-standard mechanisms for board definition files and pinmuxing description. The mainline Linux effort does not require those specific tools. This should probably at least clearly be mentioned in the help text of the package option. Thanks ! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com