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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] busybox: add devmem
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:26:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190131182633.GC28875@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKF1sq6Syjj5D3YT463z+d4NiVRaFNmTvM6gww5npLGvWR9nA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 02:18:06PM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:31 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the info this seems useful can you also report how much does it
> increase size of busybox

In a -O2 build for arm64 busybox.nosuid grows 4 kB.

cu
Adrian

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-31 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-30  9:34 [PATCH] busybox: add devmem Adrian Bunk
2019-01-30 16:50 ` Khem Raj
2019-01-30 19:47   ` Andre McCurdy
2019-01-30 20:01     ` Khem Raj
2019-01-30 20:09     ` Scott Ellis
2019-01-31 10:09       ` Philip Balister
2019-01-31 12:14         ` Leon Woestenberg
2019-01-30 20:31   ` Adrian Bunk
2019-01-30 22:18     ` Khem Raj
2019-01-30 22:31       ` Richard Purdie
2019-01-30 22:44         ` Leon Woestenberg
2019-01-30 22:47         ` Tom Rini
2019-01-31 19:04           ` Adrian Bunk
2019-01-31 19:58             ` Tom Rini
2019-01-31 18:26       ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2019-01-31 10:06   ` Philip Balister
2019-01-31 18:14     ` Adrian Bunk

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