Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Cc: Jean-Claude Gervais <jc.gervais@×××××××××.ca>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Recommended way of obtaining 'mkimage'
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:18:22
Message-Id: 200712241616.00680.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Recommended way of obtaining 'mkimage' by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 19 November 2007, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
3 > > Is there an ebuild that contains 'mkimage' ?
4 > > If not, what is the official source for this tool?
5 >
6 > as Peter said, it's part of U-Boot ... just unpack the latest tarball and
7 > try this:
8 > $ touch include/config.mk
9 > $ make tools BIN_FILES=mkimage
10 > this works with u-boot-1.1.6 ... not sure about newer versions
11 >
12 > i never made an ebuild for u-boot as it is specific to one board which has
13 > to be configured/selected at build time (and really it is totally not worth
14 > the effort), making an ebuild for the u-boot tools would be useful ...
15
16 u-boot-tools is now in the tree ... it builds/installs a bunch of the things
17 in the tools/ subdir (like the mkimage binary)
18 -mike

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