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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] uboot-tools and uboot being separate
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:14:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130214001404.199dbd64@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511C1A3F.2080804@mind.be>

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:57:03 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>   I've had the same issue once: a patch to add some functionality to 
> mkimage that I needed both on the host and on the target.

Then easy enough; put your patch in package/uboot-tools/. It handles
the build and installation of both the host *and* target variant of the
U-Boot tools.

> > No. You don't have to have identical uboot-tools and uboot.
> > Basically uboot-tools provide one tool to create U-Boot images
> > (mkimage) and tools to manipulate the U-Boot environment from Linux
> > (fw_printenv, fw_setenv). Those tools are backward compatible, and
> > so you can perfectly use the tools from U-Boot 2010.x with a
> > running U-Boot 2012.x or 2013.x.
> 
>   Unless some feature has been added or removed.

In which case you bump the version of the uboot-tools package, just
like any other package.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13 17:22 [Buildroot] uboot-tools and uboot being separate Dimitrios Siganos
2013-02-13 20:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-02-13 22:57   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-02-13 23:14     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-02-13 23:21       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-02-14  2:15         ` Dimitrios Siganos
2013-02-14  7:57         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-02-14 16:18           ` Dimitrios Siganos
2013-02-14  0:09   ` Dimitrios Siganos

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