From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:10:28 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] cc-tool: new package In-Reply-To: <553E9212.4090805@bis.org.pl> References: <1430142129-32750-1-git-send-email-marcin@bis.org.pl> <20150427173126.23797992@free-electrons.com> <553E9212.4090805@bis.org.pl> Message-ID: <20150427231028.5a0fd7df@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 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