[PATCH v2 3/6] Add fdtget utility to read property values from device tree

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:25:10AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi David,
[snip]
> > One useful extension of what you have now might be to add a "raw
> > binary" format.  Not much use for humans, but could be handy for
> > scripts extracting blobs from the device tree.  In fact, using the
> > same interpretation of existing printf() descriptors, that would
> > actually be equivalent to 'c'.
> 
> Yes I was thinking about how to do that as it might be useful. I think
> 'c' makes perfect sense. Will add to the todo.

Actually, on second thoughts using 'c' for this doesn't quite work.
For the other format specifiers, you will presumably have some sort of
separator between each repeat (newline, I'm guessing).  True binary
output, obviously, doesn't want that.

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