From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] fdt: Add a Linux tool for reading values from FDT files
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:24:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208202024.55866.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANr=Z=b8Ydv27Amvc2OgQSCqHXrrmHNu0R4yvwmrRH5OpjF1nw@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 20 August 2012 19:40:45 Joe Hershberger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 17 August 2012 16:34:40 Joe Hershberger wrote:
> >> Designed to be able to access itb files on a filesystem or an mtd
> >> partition.
> >>
> >> Supports print and list (like the fdt command) and also offset for
> >> finding the offset and size of a given property in an FDT file.
> >>
> >> This is especially helpful when reading properties from an ITB file.
> >
> > doesn't the ftdump utility from the dtc package cover your needs ?
>
> No. The purpose is to use this utility e.g. in a Linux shell script
> to retrieve a property from the ITB. The two places I use it are to
> retrieve a version number from the ITB and to identify the offset and
> size of a data block (image) in the ITB.
>
> From what I can see the ftdump utility in the dtc component just dumps
> the ITB as a single blob with no options. I'm looking at the dtc
> 1.2.0 source.
... so wouldn't the logical thing be to extend ftdump to support your needs
and send a patch to the DTC authors rather than to write an entire tool from
scratch and commit it to a tree that is merely a user of device trees ?
-mike
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 20:34 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] fdt: Check error codes returned from fdtlib when loading ITB Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] fdt: Limit printed hex in fdt print and list commands Joe Hershberger
2012-10-25 20:59 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2012-10-29 0:54 ` Jerry Van Baren
2012-08-17 20:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] fdt: Add get commands to fdt Joe Hershberger
2012-10-25 21:08 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,3/6] " Tom Rini
2012-08-17 20:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/6] fdt: Identify scripts in ITBs as printable strings Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/6] fdt: Check for a token to skip auto-hash validation Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] fdt: Add a Linux tool for reading values from FDT files Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 23:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-20 23:40 ` Joe Hershberger
2012-08-21 0:24 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-08-21 0:51 ` Joe Hershberger
2012-08-21 3:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-09-23 23:06 ` Marek Vasut
2012-10-04 17:38 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] fdt: Check error codes returned from fdtlib when loading ITB Joe Hershberger
2012-10-08 23:45 ` Jerry Van Baren
2012-10-08 23:51 ` Tom Rini
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