From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:24:54 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] fdt: Add a Linux tool for reading values from FDT files In-Reply-To: References: <1345235680-16419-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com> <201208171935.40657.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <201208202024.55866.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Monday 20 August 2012 19:40:45 Joe Hershberger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 17 August 2012 16:34:40 Joe Hershberger wrote: > >> Designed to be able to access itb files on a filesystem or an mtd > >> partition. > >> > >> Supports print and list (like the fdt command) and also offset for > >> finding the offset and size of a given property in an FDT file. > >> > >> This is especially helpful when reading properties from an ITB file. > > > > doesn't the ftdump utility from the dtc package cover your needs ? > > No. The purpose is to use this utility e.g. in a Linux shell script > to retrieve a property from the ITB. The two places I use it are to > retrieve a version number from the ITB and to identify the offset and > size of a data block (image) in the ITB. > > From what I can see the ftdump utility in the dtc component just dumps > the ITB as a single blob with no options. I'm looking at the dtc > 1.2.0 source. ... so wouldn't the logical thing be to extend ftdump to support your needs and send a patch to the DTC authors rather than to write an entire tool from scratch and commit it to a tree that is merely a user of device trees ? -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: