[OE-core] Should the devmem2 recipe move to oe-core?

[Philip Balister]

On 11/30/2015 02:09 AM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>> I was poking at the layer index and ran across this:
>>
>> http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/recipes/?q=devmem
>>
>> The recipe appears in 4 layers.
>>
>> Should we just move it to openembedded-core?
> 
> The busybox version appears to be better maintained (it's gained
> support for 64bit data types, which is still missing from the
> original), so maybe better to recommend the busybox version instead.

I asked some guys that actually use devmem2 and their comment was that
the "improvements" to the busybox version undermine some operations in
ways that make it less useful than the original.

Philip

> 
>> I wonder how easy it would
>> be to have the layer index report duplicate recipes?
>>
>> Philip
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