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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:31:29 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:50:02AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:34 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > This is a tiny but pretty useful tool.
> >
> 
> question is, do we need this enabled in default config, or could be add it via
> some DISTRO_FEATURE meant for validation etc. May be if you explain your
> usecase then we might be able to make a better assessment.

Sorry for being too terse.

devmem allows reading and writing hardware configuration registers,
which is useful both for debugging and for scripts.

cu
Adrian

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