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From: "Markus Klotzbücher" <mk@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Reading out version_string from a binary
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:11:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ixoubwy.fsf@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061121130236.GC3803@igloo.df.lth.se> (Fredrik Roubert's message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:36 +0100")

Hi Frederik,

Fredrik Roubert <fredrik.roubert@barco.com> writes:

> I use U-Boot (1.1.4) on a custom PowerPC (MPC8347) based board, and from
> my application I need to read out the value of version_string from the
> U-Boot binary, for logging. I've written some code that does this (see
> attached sample program), but would like some comments if someone has
> suggestions on how to do it more robust.
...
> Does anyone have ideas about a better way to do this?

If it doesn't have to be in C you could do something like

$ strings < u-boot.bin | grep  "U-Boot \([0-9]\.\)\{2\}[0-9]-"
VU-Boot 1.1.6-g13e2fe54 (Nov 21 2006 - 11:37:26)

Regards

Markus Klotzbuecher

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-21 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-21 13:02 [U-Boot-Users] Reading out version_string from a binary Fredrik Roubert
2006-11-21 14:11 ` Markus Klotzbücher [this message]
2006-11-21 14:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-21 16:18   ` Fredrik Roubert
2006-11-21 17:58     ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-21 18:33 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-11-22  4:10 ` Frank

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