From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:20:08 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 3/3] QE IO - Add pario command
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:28:20 CDT."
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In message <47F11124.8070705@freescale.com> you wrote:
> 
> > As far as I managed to understand, reginfo just shows a dump of CPU
> > based register values, while pario allows you to set and get the value
> > of a GPIO port - two different things. We found this very useful for
> > debugging our board, and I think it can be useful for many other
> > processor families as well. 
> 
> There is also a "qe" command that takes sub-commands as a parameter.  Currently,
> the only one is "qe fw" for uploading firmware.  Perhaps you could do "qe pario"?

Please don;t.

Instead of adding such functionality several times in several  places
distributed all over the whole source tree, let's do it just once and
right.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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