[Buildroot] [PATCH next] memtool: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Feb 26 20:46:59 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 21:44:27 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> memtool allows one to read and write memory mapped registers via /dev/mem.
> The commands are inspired by the respective commands of the barebox
> bootloader.  This is handy during driver development to inspect and modify
> register settings.  It can also be used to modify regular files and
> character devices (e.g. to paint to /dev/fb0).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

Just curious: why not package/devmem2/ ?

>  package/Config.in            |  1 +
>  package/memtool/Config.in    | 13 +++++++++++++
>  package/memtool/memtool.hash |  2 ++
>  package/memtool/memtool.mk   | 13 +++++++++++++

The update to the DEVELOPERS file is missing here :)

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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