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Add mkimg to the list of bootstrap tools
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Authored by arichardson on Dec 13 2020, 7:13 PM.
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Having this as part of the bootstrap tools is useful to build disk images
to boot in QEMU (especially when building on a Linux/macOS host where
mkimg is not available). We have been bootstrapping mkimg in CheriBSD for
a long time (using LOCAL_XTOOL_DIRS) but I believe this is also useful
upstream.

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