[Buildroot] [PATCH] cc-tool: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Apr 27 21:10:28 UTC 2015


Dear Marcin Bis,

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:46:26 +0200, Marcin Bis wrote:

> cc-tool is used for interacting with Texas Instrument's Debugger and 
> Programmer for RF System-on-Chips.
> http://www.ti.com/tool/cc-debugger
> 
> The device is used for programming (and debugging) firmware on various 
> TI Low Power RF System-on-Chips (based on 8051 microcontrolers).
> 
> I am using it for re-flashing such chips from ARM-based embedded devices 
> (running Buildroot generated os) - so I put it under "tools for target" 
> category.

Ok.

> TI chips do not have sufficient resources to run Linux on them, so 
> adding cc-tool as a host tools in Buildroot does not make sense (in my 
> opinion) - the tool has no use on Buildroot generated images.

This is not what a host tools is. A host tool runs on your PC, i.e
where you do the Buildroot build. For sure your PC has sufficient
resources to run cc-tool.

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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