[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/devmem2: remove package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Aug 14 12:18:55 UTC 2019


Hello,

+Peter in Cc.

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:29:57 -0300
unixmania at gmail.com wrote:

> From: Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com>
> 
> 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
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