[Buildroot] [RFC, PATCH 5/8] package/kexec-lite: Add a package for the kexec-lite tools

Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
Mon Feb 3 05:37:29 UTC 2014


Hi Thomas,

>> +	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBELF
>> +	select BR2_PACKAGE_DTC
>> +	select BR2_PACKAGE_DTC_PROGRAMS
> 
> I have no idea how kexec-lite works, but I'm a bit surprised by the
> dependency on dtc. Does it builds the Device Tree source at runtime on
> the target?

Yes; if no device-tree blob is provided on the command-line, it will
invoke dtc to generate one from the current system (ie, from
/proc/device-tree).

Cheers,


Jeremy



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