Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add sunxi-tools.

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Leo,

On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 21:54:41 -0400
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:02:04PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > 
> > * gnu/packages/admin.scm (sunxi-tools): New variable.  
> 
> What's the story with the 'bin/' [0] directory? I'm not familiar with
> these file types.

According to https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools/tree/master/bin they 
added these in order to avoid cross compilation...

http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-tools describes what they are.

They don't seem to be installed in the first place - so I'd just remove them. 

bin/fel-pio.bin : ARM binary to be put on the SD card on the target
bin/fel-pio.nm : symbols
bin/fel-sdboot.sunxi : ARM binary to be put on the SD card on the target
bin/jtag-loop.sunxi : ARM binary to be put on the SD card on the target
bin/ramboot.scr : a u-boot configuration binary (created by mkimage) for the 
target
bin/ramboot.uboot-sh : not actually a binary; for the target

There are also build instructions how to build those contained in the source 
code as comment at the top, for example in 
https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools/blob/master/fel-pio.c which is 
included. I don't think a normal user needs those (and I never needed those). 
I'd just omit them.