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| author |   Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod@windriver.com> | 2019-10-09 20:51:46 -0400 |
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| committer |   Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> | 2019-10-09 23:27:15 -0700 |
| commit | 714b420a1f4b19be79b34574b238b15ebfe7a09b (patch) | |
| tree | b73e6566e527816e52b8766c55cad45c926170b9 /meta-oe | |
| parent | a21cc89423d7440328dcc28909952edfc117f46a (diff) | |
| download | meta-openembedded-contrib-714b420a1f4b19be79b34574b238b15ebfe7a09b.tar.gz | |
rwmem: add DESCRIPTION since the summary is vague
Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta-oe')
| -rw-r--r-- | meta-oe/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb index 0a15134df8..5d81fdb4dd 100644 --- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ SUMMARY = "A small tool to read/write memory" +DESCRIPTION = "rwmem is a small tool for reading and writing device registers. \ +rwmem supports two modes: mmap mode and i2c mode. \ +\ +In mmap mode rwmem accesses a file by memory mapping it. \ +Using /dev/mem as the memory mapped file makes rwmem access memory and \ +can thus be used to access devices which have memory mapped registers. \ +\ +In i2c mode rwmem accesses an i2c peripheral by sending i2c messages to it." + LICENSE = "GPLv2+" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263" |