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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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      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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