it would be nice if u-boot also would build the env tools (fw_printenv, fw_setenv) oe classic used to do this
Frans, can you prepare a patch series pulling in the features you would like to see from OE?
Actually found that the later versions of the u-boot recipe in OE classic also do not contain this functionality any more. This is due to a change in the build system of u-boot introduced mid 2010. As I needed it I fixed this locally. I'll try to submit a fix in the near future, but at the moment I am heavily loaded due to end-of-year project delivery things etc, so it may take some time.
I've just submitted a patch to the oe core mailing list. As this is authored and tested under oe classic, I suggest it to be reviewed and tested carefully. At least it shows the idea. Note that tools and env need to have HOSTCC redefined. (see also http://old.nabble.com/-U-Boot---PATCH-1-4--tools%3A-enable-img2srec-for-%22all%22-target-td29440508.html#a29440510)
oops, forgot to mention: an alternative scenario would be to make this a separate recipe (like the u-boot-mkimage ones). I'm leaving that up to the maintainer to decide.
Frans, is this now resolved?
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I verified this in 1.2. A new package u-boot-fw-utils has been added to recipes-bsp/u-boot. This provides the requested functionality I have build the package and it builds fine for my board. Only minor remark I can make is that recipes-bsp/u-boot contains recipes for u-boot 2011.03 and 2011.06. For u-boot-fw-utils only a 2011.06 version exist. (Then again the data format has not changed so the 2011.06 package will work without problems on a 2011.03 u-boot environment).