From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gnu: Add sunxi-tools.
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:07:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161004120738.2351b604@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874m4scvzh.fsf@gnu.org>
> I don’t understand this description. Since “Tools”, “manage”, and
> “devices” could mean anything, could you add qualifiers to give more
> context, like:
>
> “Frobbing tools for Allwinner A10 foobar devices”
>
> and similarly expound the description (with a period at the end of the
> sentence)?
>
> Based on that, we might device that admin.scm is not the best fit for
> this package. Maybe flashing-tools.scm?
The tools included are:
- sunxi-fexc, bin2fex, fex2bin: Compile a textual description of a board (.fex) to a binary representation (.bin). Like Devicetree - if a vendor doesn't know Devicetree exists and therefore doesn't use it. [can be used on target and host]
- sunxi-fel: Puts an Allwinner A10 device into FEL mode which makes it register as a special USB device (rather than USB host). You can then connect it to another computer and flash it from there (kinda like Arduino or other Atmels). [only makes sense to be used on host]
- sunxi-nand-part: Partitions NAND flash. [only makes sense to be used on target since it uses ioctls specific to the NAND kernel driver]
- sunxi-bootinfo: Reads out boot0 and boot1 information. These are the bootloaders before U-Boot. [can be used on target and host - since it requires an image file]
- sunxi-pio: Sets GPIO and oscillates a GPIO in order to be able to find it [only makes sense to be used on target - since it uses /dev/mem]
So how about this description:
(description "This package contains tools for Allwinner A10 devices:
- sunxi-fexc, bin2fex, fex2bin: Compile a textual description of a board (.fex) to a binary representation (.bin).
- sunxi-fel: Puts a Allwinner A10 device into FEL mode which makes it register as a special USB device (rather than USB host). You can then connect it to another computer and flash it from there.
- sunxi-nand-part: Partitions NAND flash.
- sunxi-bootinfo: Reads out boot0 and boot1 information. These are the bootloaders before U-Boot.
- sunxi-pio: Sets GPIO and oscillates a GPIO in order to be able to find it.
")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 11:02 [PATCH] gnu: Add sunxi-tools Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-02 1:54 ` Leo Famulari
2016-10-02 9:54 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-02 9:57 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-10-02 10:01 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-02 9:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-04 9:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-04 10:07 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2016-10-04 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-04 14:38 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-10-05 3:03 ` [PATCH v3] " Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-05 16:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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