Re: Cmdline FDT query tool

[David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:20:05PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:03 PM, John Williams
> <john.williams-g5w7nrANp4BDPfheJLI6IQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi Grant,
> >
> > At ELC I mentioned a tool I'd written that basically hacked u-boot's
> > "fdt" command into a commandline util for querying DTBs.  You can do
> > stuff like this:
> >
> > $ fdt-tool system.dtp print
> >
> > <dump entire DTB in text format>
> >
> > $ fdt-tool system.dtb list /cpus/cpu@0 xlnx,use-dcache
> > xlnx,use-dcache = <0x1>
> >
> > and so on.
> 
> Cool.  Thanks John.
> 
> I agree with David.  It would probably be useful to include in the
> libfdt (which U-Boot fdt support makes use of too) source repo.  Seems
> like a useful tool.

Of course, to incorporate it with libfdt, it would need to be BSD
dual-licensed, like the rest of libfdt, and we'd need sign-offs from
all authors to that effect.

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