[PATCH v5 4/5] Add fdtget utility to read property values from a device tree

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Dec 16 12:37:51 EST 2011


Hi,

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:20 PM, David Gibson
<david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:11:05AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>> This simply utility makes it easy for scripts to read values from the device
>> tree. It is written in C and uses the same libfdt as the rest of the dtc
>> package.
>>
>> What is it for:
>> - Reading fdt values from scripts
>> - Extracting fdt information within build systems
>> - Looking at particular values without having to dump the entire tree
>>
>> To use it, specify the fdt binary file on command line followed by a list of
>> node, property pairs. The utility then looks up each node, finds the property
>> and displays the value.
>>
>> Each value is printed on a new line.
>>
>> fdtget tries to guess the type of each property based on its contents. This
>> is not always reliable, so you can use the -t option to force fdtget to decode
>> the value as a string, or byte, etc.
>>
>> To read from stdin, use - as the file.
>>
>> Usage:
>>       fdtget <options> <dt file> [<node> <property>]...
>> Options:
>>       -t <type>       Type of data
>>       -h              Print this help
>>
>> <type>        s=string, i=int, u=unsigned, x=hex
>>       Optional modifier prefix:
>>               hh or b=byte, h=2 byte, l=4 byte (default)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Has this been applied? I cannot see it in the repo.

Regards
Simon

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