Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] lrzsz: remove

[Bill Randle]

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Richard Purdie
 wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 17:05 +, 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
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Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] lrzsz: remove

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 17:05 +, 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.

Cheers,

Richard
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