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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Owen Kirby <osk@exegin.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add readmem command to read values out of memory.
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 07:59:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140512055910.GE5858@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536D5DBF.7040708@exegin.com>

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 03:59:11PM -0700, Owen Kirby wrote:
> From 299ffc6a961c807b118605bdd9e736c7b096fec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Owen Kirby <osk@exegin.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 15:14:30 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Add readmem command to read values out of memory.
> 
> I was trying to do something conditionally from a shell script based on the type
> of image present in flash, and finding it rather cumbersome to do. So I added a
> command that reads values out of memory and into shell variables as hexadecimal.

Such a functionality might come in handy and indeed it seems to be hard
to archieve with other commands.

Have you looked into the filetype stuff? This could solve your problem
without having to interpret hex values from shell. See common/filetype.c
and commands/filetype.c.

> +config CMD_READMEM
> +	tristate
> +	default y

No default y please, just drop this line.

Sascha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-12  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-09 22:59 Owen Kirby
2014-05-10 13:32 ` Antony Pavlov
2014-05-12  5:59 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2014-05-12 18:36   ` Owen Kirby

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