On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 11:28 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:10:07 +0100 > Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Target tools are those which are only useful on a target sunxi system > > (i.e. > > which probe hardware etc). > > > > Currently this is only sunxi-pio. At first I thought sunxi-nand-part > > might be > > included, but I think that is useful on NAND images as well as actual > > devices. > > > > This will allow for easier packaging, by letting packagers only include > > the > > target tools when building for a suitable ARM architecture. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <[email protected]> > > Hello, > > I just wonder about this 'sunxi-pio' tool in general. What is the > primary use case?
I've no idea. Maybe it just predates all of the below? > We seem to already have sysfs-based alternative > methods for accessing GPIO pins: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/gpio/sysfs.txt > http://linux-sunxi.org/GPIO#Accessing_the_GPIO_pins_through_sysfs_on_ > sunxi-3.4 > > Because "git log pio.c" lists Alejandro and Henrik as the main sunxi-pio > tool contributors, also added them to CC. I'll let them answer. Ian. > Do we want to have this tool documented a little bit better? Or maybe > even deprecate it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
