diff --git a/tools/build/Build b/tools/build/Build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63a6c34c0c88567cbee47e2431d96e18e395c62e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build/Build
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fixdep-y := fixdep.o
diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile b/tools/build/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a93036272d43cee505d43fee2ef3b1c347056f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+ifeq ($(srctree),)
+srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(shell pwd)))
+srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(srctree)))
+endif
+
+include $(srctree)/tools//scripts/Makefile.include
+
+define allow-override
+  $(if $(or $(findstring environment,$(origin $(1))),\
+            $(findstring command line,$(origin $(1)))),,\
+    $(eval $(1) = $(2)))
+endef
+
+$(call allow-override,CC,$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc)
+$(call allow-override,LD,$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld)
+
+ifeq ($(V),1)
+  Q =
+else
+  Q = @
+endif
+
+export Q srctree CC LD
+
+MAKEFLAGS := --no-print-directory
+build     := -f $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=. obj
+
+all: fixdep
+
+clean:
+	$(call QUIET_CLEAN, fixdep)
+	$(Q)find . -name '*.o' -delete -o -name '\.*.cmd' -delete -o -name '\.*.d' -delete
+	$(Q)rm -f fixdep
+
+$(OUTPUT)fixdep-in.o: FORCE
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=fixdep
+
+$(OUTPUT)fixdep: $(OUTPUT)fixdep-in.o
+	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $<
+
+FORCE:
+
+.PHONY: FORCE
diff --git a/tools/build/fixdep.c b/tools/build/fixdep.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1521d36cef0dff64f5d11f56044430badc8b92d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build/fixdep.c
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+/*
+ * "Optimize" a list of dependencies as spit out by gcc -MD
+ * for the build framework.
+ *
+ * Original author:
+ *   Copyright    2002 by Kai Germaschewski  <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>
+ *
+ * This code has been borrowed from kbuild's fixdep (scripts/basic/fixdep.c),
+ * Please check it for detailed explanation. This fixdep borow only the
+ * base transformation of dependecies without the CONFIG mangle.
+ */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+
+char *target;
+char *depfile;
+char *cmdline;
+
+static void usage(void)
+{
+	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: fixdep <depfile> <target> <cmdline>\n");
+	exit(1);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Print out the commandline prefixed with cmd_<target filename> :=
+ */
+static void print_cmdline(void)
+{
+	printf("cmd_%s := %s\n\n", target, cmdline);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Important: The below generated source_foo.o and deps_foo.o variable
+ * assignments are parsed not only by make, but also by the rather simple
+ * parser in scripts/mod/sumversion.c.
+ */
+static void parse_dep_file(void *map, size_t len)
+{
+	char *m = map;
+	char *end = m + len;
+	char *p;
+	char s[PATH_MAX];
+	int is_target;
+	int saw_any_target = 0;
+	int is_first_dep = 0;
+
+	while (m < end) {
+		/* Skip any "white space" */
+		while (m < end && (*m == ' ' || *m == '\\' || *m == '\n'))
+			m++;
+		/* Find next "white space" */
+		p = m;
+		while (p < end && *p != ' ' && *p != '\\' && *p != '\n')
+			p++;
+		/* Is the token we found a target name? */
+		is_target = (*(p-1) == ':');
+		/* Don't write any target names into the dependency file */
+		if (is_target) {
+			/* The /next/ file is the first dependency */
+			is_first_dep = 1;
+		} else {
+			/* Save this token/filename */
+			memcpy(s, m, p-m);
+			s[p - m] = 0;
+
+			/*
+			 * Do not list the source file as dependency,
+			 * so that kbuild is not confused if a .c file
+			 * is rewritten into .S or vice versa. Storing
+			 * it in source_* is needed for modpost to
+			 * compute srcversions.
+			 */
+			if (is_first_dep) {
+				/*
+				 * If processing the concatenation of
+				 * multiple dependency files, only
+				 * process the first target name, which
+				 * will be the original source name,
+				 * and ignore any other target names,
+				 * which will be intermediate temporary
+				 * files.
+				 */
+				if (!saw_any_target) {
+					saw_any_target = 1;
+					printf("source_%s := %s\n\n",
+						target, s);
+					printf("deps_%s := \\\n",
+						target);
+				}
+				is_first_dep = 0;
+			} else
+				printf("  %s \\\n", s);
+		}
+		/*
+		 * Start searching for next token immediately after the first
+		 * "whitespace" character that follows this token.
+		 */
+		m = p + 1;
+	}
+
+	if (!saw_any_target) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: parse error; no targets found\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	printf("\n%s: $(deps_%s)\n\n", target, target);
+	printf("$(deps_%s):\n", target);
+}
+
+static void print_deps(void)
+{
+	struct stat st;
+	int fd;
+	void *map;
+
+	fd = open(depfile, O_RDONLY);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: error opening depfile: ");
+		perror(depfile);
+		exit(2);
+	}
+	if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: error fstat'ing depfile: ");
+		perror(depfile);
+		exit(2);
+	}
+	if (st.st_size == 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: %s is empty\n", depfile);
+		close(fd);
+		return;
+	}
+	map = mmap(NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
+	if ((long) map == -1) {
+		perror("fixdep: mmap");
+		close(fd);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	parse_dep_file(map, st.st_size);
+
+	munmap(map, st.st_size);
+
+	close(fd);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	if (argc != 4)
+		usage();
+
+	depfile = argv[1];
+	target  = argv[2];
+	cmdline = argv[3];
+
+	print_cmdline();
+	print_deps();
+
+	return 0;
+}