The motivation for this is to allow distributions to distribute all possible tools in a generic way, avoiding the need of specific tools building for each machine.
Especially on OpenEmbedded / Yocto Project ecosystem, it is very common each BSP to end providing their specific tools when they need to generate images for some SoC (e.g MX23 / MX28 in meta-freescale case).
Using this, we can package the tools doing:
$: make tools-only_defconfig $: make tools-only
Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador otavio@ossystems.com.br ---
configs/tools-only_defconfig | 3 +++ tools/Makefile | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 configs/tools-only_defconfig
diff --git a/configs/tools-only_defconfig b/configs/tools-only_defconfig new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..be69bdf43a --- /dev/null +++ b/configs/tools-only_defconfig @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0 +CONFIG_FIT=y +CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE=y diff --git a/tools/Makefile b/tools/Makefile index 3c0521f655..e916d0cebb 100644 --- a/tools/Makefile +++ b/tools/Makefile @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ fit_info-objs := $(dumpimage-mkimage-objs) fit_info.o fit_check_sign-objs := $(dumpimage-mkimage-objs) fit_check_sign.o file2include-objs := file2include.o
-ifneq ($(CONFIG_MX23)$(CONFIG_MX28),) +ifneq ($(CONFIG_MX23)$(CONFIG_MX28)$(CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE),) # Add CONFIG_MXS into host CFLAGS, so we can check whether or not register # the mxsimage support within tools/mxsimage.c . HOSTCFLAGS_mxsimage.o += -DCONFIG_MXS