From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
YP docs mailing list <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [docs] is there any value in a short section somewhere on H/W bringup tools?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:47:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90133708303aa9fdb7d2bc0cbe3c70aabfc3f3a0.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f9e9bb5-e84e-c9a2-bd27-105ffae5c2e8@crashcourse.ca>
On Tue, 2025-11-25 at 06:35 -0800, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> Is there any value in adding a short section on useful OE-available
> hardware bringup utilities? i just added this to an image to help me
> poke around a new board:
>
> IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " \
> devmem2 \
> dtc \
> ethtool \
> i2c-tools \
> libgpiod \
> libubootenv-bin \
> lshw \
> mdio-tools \
> phytool \
> spitools \
> usbutils \
> "
>
> might this be something that would be appropriate for the BSP guide,
> or as a section in the dev tasks manual? (i'm sure there are other
> packages that would belong here as well.)
Most of these are in meta-openembedded? If so, would a packagegroup
there make sense?
Cheers,
Richard
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2025-11-25 14:36 is there any value in a short section somewhere on H/W bringup tools? Robert P. J. Day
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