From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Sealey Subject: Re: dtc/u-boot tool naming, "ftdump", "mkimage" Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:34:34 -0600 Message-ID: <496E849A.8020707@genesi-usa.com> References: <496E2796.3090405@genesi-usa.com> <20090114181028.GB7768@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> <496E3604.8030007@genesi-usa.com> <496E38DA.8080408@ge.com> <20090114191905.GA18581@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090114191905.GA18581@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de Errors-To: u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de To: Josh Boyer Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de, devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Sealey Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:34:34 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] dtc/u-boot tool naming, "ftdump", "mkimage" In-Reply-To: <20090114191905.GA18581@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> References: <496E2796.3090405@genesi-usa.com> <20090114181028.GB7768@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> <496E3604.8030007@genesi-usa.com> <496E38DA.8080408@ge.com> <20090114191905.GA18581@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> Message-ID: <496E849A.8020707@genesi-usa.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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