From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, jdl@jdl.com
Subject: Re: [DTC] small ftdump cleanup patch
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:25:20 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080103232520.GA12883@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103144056.GB28644@windriver.com>
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Here is a small patch to clean up the usage info and the error returns
> for ftdump -- not sure what the future holds for ftdump vs. simply using
> "dtc -I dtb -O dts someblob.dtb" ...
I expect ftdump to stay around for the forseeable future as a
hacking/debugging tool; the idea is that it will be able to tell you
at least something about a malformed or corrupted dtb, whereas dtc is
likely to choke before producing any output. Any non-debugging use is
likely a mistake, though.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-03 14:40 [DTC] small ftdump cleanup patch Paul Gortmaker
2008-01-03 14:53 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-01-03 14:59 ` Paul Gortmaker
2008-01-03 23:25 ` David Gibson [this message]
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