From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:21:36 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Using u-boot tools In-Reply-To: References: <20140929111853.6881f323@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140929152136.4d7cee9c@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Thomas De Schampheleire, On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:32:52 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > >> I am using customized uboot-tools 2010.03 and want to retain that. In 2014, > >> the tools selection is new, but I want to use the source code for > >> uboot-tools used in 2010.03, as this is having some changes. I want to get > >> the "fw_printenv" compiled with a "-D" flag. > >> > >> Can anyone please help me in this regard? > > > > Well, just add a patch in package/uboot-tools/ to make whatever change > > you want to the U-Boot source code used for your U-Boot tools. > > As this change will not be upstreamable to buildroot, I would rather > recommend to use BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR, to not pollute the upstream > buildroot sources. See http://nightly.buildroot.org/#customize-patches Absolutely, that's a good point. Thanks for reminding me about this! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com