From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40A83607AA for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2015 19:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14854 invoked by uid 1003); 2 Dec 2015 19:44:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.11.124?) (philip@opensdr.com@108.44.110.59) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Dec 2015 19:44:28 -0000 To: Andre McCurdy References: <565A634F.4020508@balister.org> From: Philip Balister Message-ID: <565F4A15.4070200@balister.org> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 14:44:21 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: openembedded-core Subject: Re: Should the devmem2 recipe move to oe-core? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:44:32 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/30/2015 02:09 AM, Andre McCurdy wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Philip Balister wrote: >> I was poking at the layer index and ran across this: >> >> http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/recipes/?q=devmem >> >> The recipe appears in 4 layers. >> >> Should we just move it to openembedded-core? > > The busybox version appears to be better maintained (it's gained > support for 64bit data types, which is still missing from the > original), so maybe better to recommend the busybox version instead. I asked some guys that actually use devmem2 and their comment was that the "improvements" to the busybox version undermine some operations in ways that make it less useful than the original. Philip > >> I wonder how easy it would >> be to have the layer index report duplicate recipes? >> >> Philip >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Openembedded-core mailing list >> Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org >> http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core >