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From: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de, devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: dtc/u-boot tool naming, "ftdump", "mkimage"
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:34:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496E849A.8020707@genesi-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114191905.GA18581@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org>

Josh Boyer wrote:

> David has said before that ftdump is sort of a pointless debugging tool.
> Or at least that is what the Debian bug report referrenced as the reason
> from removing it from the Debian dtc package.

As long as you have the original device tree source code to hand. I tend 
to find that the guy who sent me the device tree and kernel for me to 
test, has gone to bed and will not be back for 8 to 10 hours. Rather 
than hang around, on the event that I think it's a device tree problem I 
tend to ftdump to see what's going on.

It might have some use somewhere someday, but yeah.. I guess.. bringing 
it out from a build into a package is kind of a dumb idea.

> Maybe we should just remove it entirely if it's not really going to be
> maintained long-term.

Up to you.

-- Matt

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From: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] dtc/u-boot tool naming, "ftdump", "mkimage"
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:34:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496E849A.8020707@genesi-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114191905.GA18581@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org>

Josh Boyer wrote:

> David has said before that ftdump is sort of a pointless debugging tool.
> Or at least that is what the Debian bug report referrenced as the reason
> from removing it from the Debian dtc package.

As long as you have the original device tree source code to hand. I tend 
to find that the guy who sent me the device tree and kernel for me to 
test, has gone to bed and will not be back for 8 to 10 hours. Rather 
than hang around, on the event that I think it's a device tree problem I 
tend to ftdump to see what's going on.

It might have some use somewhere someday, but yeah.. I guess.. bringing 
it out from a build into a package is kind of a dumb idea.

> Maybe we should just remove it entirely if it's not really going to be
> maintained long-term.

Up to you.

-- Matt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-15  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 17:57 dtc/u-boot tool naming, "ftdump", "mkimage" Matt Sealey
2009-01-14 17:57 ` [U-Boot] " Matt Sealey
2009-01-14 18:10 ` Josh Boyer
2009-01-14 18:10   ` [U-Boot] " Josh Boyer
2009-01-14 18:59   ` Matt Sealey
2009-01-14 18:59     ` [U-Boot] " Matt Sealey
2009-01-14 19:11     ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-14 19:11       ` [U-Boot] " Jerry Van Baren
2009-01-14 19:19       ` Josh Boyer
2009-01-14 19:19         ` [U-Boot] " Josh Boyer
     [not found]         ` <20090114191905.GA18581-JVa43G0qJ78RlTYtMZUE4cJ8OCA1ciLf@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-14 22:22           ` David Gibson
2009-01-14 22:22             ` David Gibson
2009-01-15  0:34         ` Matt Sealey [this message]
2009-01-15  0:34           ` Matt Sealey
     [not found]           ` <496E849A.8020707-sEEEE4iEDtaXzmuOJsdVMQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-15  0:49             ` David Gibson
2009-01-15  0:49               ` David Gibson

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