On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 16:08 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > On 16-10-15 15:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > 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? > > I use it (with -m, no idea what the other modes are for) for debugging under > both android (statically linked) and mainline Linux. It is useful because it > also shows drive-strength, pull-up and pinmux all things which the gpio sysfs > API cannot do.
I suppose that could be added, but they don't exist today so pio is still useful I suppose. > I suggest keeping it around and renaming it sunxi-pio or sunxi-gpio The former is what is done in this series. Cheers, Ian -- 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.
