On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 17:05 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote: >> I've had people from the past > > What are you suggesting? ;-) > >> suggest that this is still useful for deeply embedded environments >> where a serial line is the only form of communication, so I'm >> retracting this and will instead clean up dependencies so it doesn't >> end up in all images. > > To be clear, if you have a device you're doing board bringup on and > serial works but network doesn't this does provide a useful way to get > files in/out. That isn't an entirely unknown situation for OE users. It > would also potentially allow us to improve the serial test runner used > by poky-tiny. >
I agree. Please don't drop this. On a previous project (FPGA based co-processor board), x/y/zmodem was the only way to transfer files to the target since it did not have a network interface at all - just serial. -Bill -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core