From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:35:50 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Building fw_printenv (u-boot utility) for target? In-Reply-To: (Grant Edwards's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:29:03 +0000 (UTC)") References: Message-ID: <87ocbpa53t.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards writes: Hi, Grant> I want fw_printenv on my target, and it would be convenient if Grant> buildroot built it and set up the relvent links. But, AFAICT, I can't Grant> have buildroot build the fw_printenv utility without having it do a Grant> complete build of U-Boot. I don't have any need/desire for buildroot Grant> to build the bootloader itself, I only need the fw_printenv linux app Grant> for the target. Is that possible with buildroot? Currently not, is it a big deal to build u-boot as well? The reason for this is mainly that fw_printenv isn't available seperately, so we would need to double quite a lot of the u-boot handling if we were to move it to a seperate package, and they are most of the time used together. Grant> Or should I just build fw_printenv separately and stick it into the Grant> filesystem using the custom package? That's naturally an option as well. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard