Re: How to build I2Ctools for OpenBMC

Re: How to build I2Ctools for OpenBMC

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Amutha,

On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:53:10 -0400, Amutha Krishnasamy wrote:
> This is Amutha Krishnasamy <https://github.com/amuthakrishnasamy>  from Montage technologies https://www.montage-tech.com/DDR5_SPD_PMIC_TS/M88SPD5118
> 
> Currently, I am working on adding Device authentication feature for eSPD(enhanced Serial Presence Detect) device which is under development. 
> 
> For this testing, I would like to know how to rebuild the i2c-tools https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git/ (used in the openBMC source) and what are the tools used for this build. 
> 
> I tried to build i2ctools with https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/arm-gnu-toolchain-downloads - x86_64 Linux hosted cross toolchains - AArch64 GNU/Linux target (aarch64-none-linux-gnu) arm-gnu-toolchain-12.3.rel1-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu.tar.xz. 
> 
> This created a binary and when used the binary I could not execute and getting Execute format error. 
> 
> Please let me know if you have any info on how to build the i2ctools to run on EGS system. 

I can't help you with that, sorry. I have no experience with
cross-building binaries for embedded systems. I don't think your
problem is related to i2c-tools anyway, the tool chain used to build
binaries would be the same for any project written in C.

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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support