On Monday 20 August 2012 20:51:32 Joe Hershberger wrote:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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 ?
Yes it probably would have been, if I had noticed that the ftdump utility existed, then that is the approach I would have taken. I think it is of specific use to u-boot users, but if you think it's better to extend ftdump, I guess I could take that approach.
i think it has a better chance of being maintained and other people using it if it were merged into the canonical DTC project. i can see a more swiss army type tool being useful to people rather than having to pipe it all through awk.
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