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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] cc-tool: new package
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:10:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150427231028.5a0fd7df@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <553E9212.4090805@bis.org.pl>

Dear Marcin Bis,

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:46:26 +0200, Marcin Bis wrote:

> cc-tool is used for interacting with Texas Instrument's Debugger and 
> Programmer for RF System-on-Chips.
> http://www.ti.com/tool/cc-debugger
> 
> The device is used for programming (and debugging) firmware on various 
> TI Low Power RF System-on-Chips (based on 8051 microcontrolers).
> 
> I am using it for re-flashing such chips from ARM-based embedded devices 
> (running Buildroot generated os) - so I put it under "tools for target" 
> category.

Ok.

> TI chips do not have sufficient resources to run Linux on them, so 
> adding cc-tool as a host tools in Buildroot does not make sense (in my 
> opinion) - the tool has no use on Buildroot generated images.

This is not what a host tools is. A host tool runs on your PC, i.e
where you do the Buildroot build. For sure your PC has sufficient
resources to run cc-tool.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-27 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-27 13:42 [Buildroot] [PATCH] cc-tool: new package Marcin Bis
2015-04-27 15:31 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-04-27 19:46   ` Marcin Bis
2015-04-27 19:50     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] " Marcin Bis
2015-04-28  3:28       ` Baruch Siach
2015-04-28  7:44         ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] " Marcin Bis
2015-04-28  9:01           ` Baruch Siach
2015-04-28  9:19             ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv4] " Marcin Bis
2015-05-02 19:00               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-04-27 21:10     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-04-28  7:35       ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] " Marcin Bis
2015-04-28  8:02         ` Thomas Petazzoni

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