[U-Boot] dtc/u-boot tool naming, "ftdump", "mkimage"

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Jan 15 11:49:19 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:34:34PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> David has said before that ftdump is sort of a pointless debugging tool.
>> Or at least that is what the Debian bug report referrenced as the reason
>> from removing it from the Debian dtc package.
>
> As long as you have the original device tree source code to hand. I tend  
> to find that the guy who sent me the device tree and kernel for me to  
> test, has gone to bed and will not be back for 8 to 10 hours. Rather  
> than hang around, on the event that I think it's a device tree problem I  
> tend to ftdump to see what's going on.

Like I said, "dtc -I dtb -O dts" is the non-hacky way to do this.

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