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

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Dec 20 23:01:48 EST 2011


On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:37:51PM -0800, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

I haven't chased it, I'm afraid.  You'll need to follow up with Jon directly.

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