Cmdline FDT query tool

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu May 27 15:17:08 EST 2010


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:40:51AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:17 AM, David Gibson
> <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:20:05PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:03 PM, John Williams
> >> <john.williams at petalogix.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi Grant,
> >> >
> >> > At ELC I mentioned a tool I'd written that basically hacked u-boot's
> >> > "fdt" command into a commandline util for querying DTBs.  You can do
> >> > stuff like this:
> >> >
> >> > $ fdt-tool system.dtp print
> >> >
> >> > <dump entire DTB in text format>
> >> >
> >> > $ fdt-tool system.dtb list /cpus/cpu at 0 xlnx,use-dcache
> >> > xlnx,use-dcache = <0x1>
> >> >
> >> > and so on.
> >>
> >> Cool.  Thanks John.
> >>
> >> I agree with David.  It would probably be useful to include in the
> >> libfdt (which U-Boot fdt support makes use of too) source repo.  Seems
> >> like a useful tool.
> >
> > Of course, to incorporate it with libfdt, it would need to be BSD
> > dual-licensed, like the rest of libfdt, and we'd need sign-offs from
> > all authors to that effect.
> 
> I have no problem with that, but since I ripped the guts of it
> directly from u-boot there'll be a conversation to be had there.

Ok.  Do you have the means to track down the people with whom this
conversation needs to happen?

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