This project contains a handful of tools that are designed to aid
embedded software developers to generate statically parameterized designs
from Freedom platform device trees. Help for the various tools can be
found by passing the --help argument, to the tool once they have been
built.
If you're interested in using the tools then it's probably best to check out the Freedom SDK, which uses these tools to parameterize the Freedom METAL for the various targets that it can support.
As a quick overview, here are the tools that are installed as part of this project:
freedom-ldscript-generator: Generates linker scripts that are compatible with the Freedom METAL from a device tree.freedom-makeattributes-generator: Generates Makefile attributes (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc) from a device tree.freedom-mee_header-generator: Generates a METAL header parameterization file, which allows the METAL to target the device described by the given device tree.freedom-openocdcfg-generator: Generates an OpenOCD configuration file from a device tree.freedom-zephyrdtsfixup-generator: Generates a dts.fixup configuration file from a device tree. This is a temporary requirement of the Zephyr RTOS project to support DTS-based driver configuration.
If you're just planning on using this project then you should use the latest tarball release, which is always available from the GitHub releases page. Builds are uploaded from Travis after they succeed.
The following packages are necessary to build from a tarball
build-essentiallibfdt-devdevice-tree-compiler
Additionally, the following packages are necessary to build from git sources:
autoconfautomakegit