Hi Tom, On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 11:16 -0400, Tom Rini wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 05:33:51PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > Prior to Kbuild, U-Boot could build under tools/ directory > > withour configuring for a specific board. > > > > That feature was lost when switching to Kbuild. > > > > This patch revives it again by adding a make target "tools-only". > > > > Usage: > > $ make tools-only > > > > Neither board configuration nor cross compiler are required to > > build host tools. > > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamad...@jp.panasonic.com> > > Suggested-by: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brod...@synopsys.com> > > Cc: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brod...@synopsys.com> > > Cc: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> > > Cc: Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> > > Problem is that we make enabling the signature code (which adds more > deps on the host) based on the config, and this was intentional. So > I'm not sure if we want to do this exactly, at least right now.
Could you please add a bit more clarifications for your comment. I don't quite understand why do I need to have any info from a board configuration when building "mkimage" utility. Maybe I'm missing something. And the problem is without proposed patch it's virtually impossible (or I don't know how) to build "mkimage" without configuring the real board. For example what Linux distros will do to build generic "mkimage" tool? And I think it is very important to resolve before U-Boot v2014.04 gets released. -Alexey _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
