Hey Wolfgang, On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 14:01 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > Hi, > I am working on adding support for our upcoming 'XBurst' board into > OpenWrt [1]. Sources are here [2]. > > In addition to all the stuff that targets the device, I have a reflashing tool > running on the host. This tool can boot the device over USB and reflash it. > It's called 'usbboot' and part of a package called 'xburst-tools' (the CPU > is an XBurst (MIPS-compatible) CPU). > Sources for that package are here [3]. > > Now, in the OpenWrt there is a directory 'tools' at the root level. Should I > create a subfolder (+Makefile etc) for xburst-tools inside there? > However, the tool depends on my target. > Is the 'tools' directory only for target-independent host tools?
The tools/-directory contains OpenWrt-Makefiles for essential tools which are needed on the host system to get an OpenWrt build done, so - yes - they're target-independent. In my view tools/ would not be the appropriate location to store the xburst tools. This could be either done within the target-directory (as it is done for e.g. u-boot) or the "usual" way of building specific host-tools in OpenWrt (like it's done for e.g. "bjam"). The latter way is usually used for building host-tools that are needed by other packages as dependencies (e.g. "bjam" is needed as host-tool for getting "boost" compiled) so it's just used within the OpenWrt build process - however the host-tools remains in staging_dir/host/bin/ and can still be used afterwards. > > Another possible place would be in target/linux/xburst. But I see no host > tools in any of the other targets, so I'm not sure it's a good place. Maybe xburst tools can be splitted in: - xburst-staging-binaries (compiled for the target) - usbboot (compiled for the host) > > Any help appreciated, thanks! > Wolfgang mirko :) > > [1] http://www.qi-hardware.com/products/ben-nanonote/ > [2] http://github.com/lindnermarek/openwrt-x-burst > [3] http://github.com/xiangfu/xburst-tools > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
