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

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Jeremy Kerr,

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:37:29 +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:

> >> +	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).

Ok, then in this kind of case, we like to do:

	# run-time dependency only
	select BR2_PACKAGE_DTC
	select BR2_PACKAGE_DTC_PROGRAMS

so that we remember why this dependency is expressed in the Config.in,
but not in the package .mk file.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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