From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:15:31 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] why to have separate uboot-tools? In-Reply-To: <51C825B8.6070800@gmail.com> References: <51C825B8.6070800@gmail.com> Message-ID: <51C82A53.90403@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 06/24/2013 07:55 AM, Jan Pohanka wrote: > Hi all, > > currently I'm trying to customize buildroot a bit to allow it to be used > by my colleagues as a base of their development environment. > I have noticed that there is separate package for u-boot-tools (mkimage, > etc.) Can please someone tell me why these tools are not installed from > u-boot package defined in bootloaders section? > > Once we use our own u-boot with its own tools (uflash from TI) I need to > alter two packages and also u-boot sources are downloaded two times. > I can prepare a patch to use just u-boot in bootloaders section, but the > question is if it is not worthless... Hi. Because maybe you are just building an uImage and not the bootloader for your target? Hence saving time building a complete bootloader and (also) maybe you lack the customized bootloader source to build a complete target which would preclude you from building just the tools which don't have board-specific bits. (not saying this is nice, but it happens sometimes) Regards.