[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/mfgtools: drop package

[Jörg Krause]

Hi Gary,

On Mon, 2020-02-10 at 17:26 +0100, Gary Bisson wrote:
> Hi Jorge,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:10:20PM +0100, Jörg Krause wrote:
> > As suggested in [1] the package mfgtools is dropped.
> > 
> > NXP did replaced the old mfgtools with the version number 0.2
> > enterily with the uuu (Universal Update Utility) which is somehow
> > named mfgtools 3.0 although the version scheme for the uuu tool is
> > 1.xx.yyy.
> > 
> > As the old mfgtools scripts are not compatible with the new uuu
> > tool and as imx-uuu goes hand-in-hand with imx-uuc, which we ship
> > for the target, the mfgtools package is dropped.
> 
> I know I'm the one who pushed for that commit to happen but now want to
> mitigate the claim above.

Thanks for your feedback and sorry for my late reply.

> True uuu depends on imx-uuc and mfgtools (1st of its name) too. BUT by
> looking at imx-uuc, the two use cases are separated into 2 different
> files:
> - uu.c: daemon that uses utp protocol to communicate with host
> - ufb.c: daemon that uses fastboot protocol to communicate with host

In fact, I am using mfgtools without imx-uuc, but with U-Boot.

> So I think it should be safe to have both host clients co-existing for
> now. Maybe uu.c will be removed at some point in the future but I guess
> NXP will leave it there for a while.

So, lets just update mfgtools to latest version (1.3.154), right?

Best regards
Jörg Krause