Hi Wolfgang,
On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 02:27, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Simon,
In message 20210720132940.1171011-14-sjg@chromium.org you wrote:
In some cases it is useful to be able to supply a binary value to a command. Use the '0y' prefix for this (binarY).
We also don't handle octal input yet, and also miss a number of other interesting numberbases, like 42.
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.
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.
%% (signatures) Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Well, yes. Perhaps we should just drop octal?
Regards, Simon