[Buildroot] devmem2

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "David" == David Anders <dave123_aml@yahoo.com> writes:

 David> Peter,

 David> the primary commit that makes the devmem applet unusable for
 David> most debugging is this one:

 David> commit 043246560fcd5bb7bfb2caa2db270c3c0e8e06f4
 David> Author: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
 David> Date:   Sun Oct 26 17:26:55 2008 +0000

 David>     devmem: make it more script-friendly; don't do any reads
 David>      and output nothing if writing was requested. -100 bytes


 David> for board bring up and general development, for which devmem is
 David> primarily used, having devmem report the value before the write
 David> is important, as well as reporting the value after the write.

Ok, but adding a little shell wrapper to do that would be simple to do.

Forcing 2 extra read actions isn't that nice, both for the
script-friendlyness, but also for registers where reads have side
effects.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard