From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:18:55 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/devmem2: remove package In-Reply-To: <20190814102957.23544-1-unixmania@gmail.com> References: <20190814102957.23544-1-unixmania@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20190814141855.307cf763@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, +Peter in Cc. On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:29:57 -0300 unixmania at gmail.com wrote: > From: Carlos Santos > > It was here just for backwards compatibility and is not used by any > package or board after commits > > 59856480b6 packages/devmem2: remove from all board configurations > 2f6e3eae55 package/ti-gfx: do not use devmem2 in script > > There are address casting issues with 32bit access on a 64bit bus (like > on the SoC FPGA ARM processors) with this tool. The Busybox version of > devmem is the most up to date and supports quadword access. > > Fixes: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10171 I don't particularly care about devmem2, but it was not here just for "backwards compatibility". It was there also for the cases where people don't want to use Busybox, but still need a devmem implementation. I'm not sure how much this use case is important, though. Peter, could you take a decision on this ? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com