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+SUMMARY = "Task to install additional utilities for initial board bringup"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+PR = "r0"
+
+PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
+
+inherit packagegroup
+
+UTILS = " \
+	 arm-benchmarks \
+	 evtest \
+	 memtester \
+	 nbench-byte \
+	 pcitest \
+	 serialcheck \
+	 yavta \
+	 hdparm \
+	 i2c-tools \
+	 libdrm-tests \
+	 rt-tests \
+	 iozone3 \
+	 mtd-utils-ubifs-tests \
+	 net-tools \
+	 ethtool  \
+	 pciutils \
+	 rng-tools \
+	 stress-ng \
+	 iperf \
+	 lmbench \
+	 usbutils \
+	 devmem2 \
+	 phytool \
+"
+
+UTILS_append_ti33x = " \
+    omapconf \
+"
+
+UTILS_append_ti43x = " \
+    omapconf \
+"
+
+UTILS_append_omap-a15 = " \
+    omapconf \
+"
+
+UTILS_append_k3 = " \
+    k3conf \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+    ${UTILS} \
+"