Re: [PATCH 13/15] RFC: lib: Support a binary prefix 0y

Wolfgang Denk
2021-07-22T09:48:44Z

Dear Simon,

In message <CAPnjgZ0i0BQbP_BOESVazq=1o-2otvKoecVt0n+DrJdkZgrJAg@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > But ... do we really *need* all this stuff?
>
> No...
>
> I added binary as an RFC because I have found a few cases where it is
> nice to be able to specify the bits (e.g. programming GPIOs). We could
> update 'md' to support it too.

Yes, we could, but U-Boot size is continuously growing, even for
constant configurations, i. e. when no nmew features are
wanted/needed.

> I added octal as an RFC since the current impl is almost never
> available (only when 0 is parted to simple_strtoul()) which seems odd.

I can't see how this should work...

> Well, yes. Perhaps we should just drop octal?

Drop? AFAICT we never supported octal. Something like "md 040" will
start dumping at 0x00000040, right?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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