[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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