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From: Owen Kirby <osk@exegin.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add readmem command to read values out of memory.
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:36:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53711499.5020904@exegin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140512055910.GE5858@pengutronix.de>

On 14-05-11 10:59 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 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.
Ooh! That's exactly what I needed, and it looks much more sophisticated
than what I threw together. I really should have spent more time to RTFM
first. Please feel free to drop this patchsince it's no longer needed.
>
>> +config CMD_READMEM
>> +	tristate
>> +	default y
> No default y please, just drop this line.
My bad, that was a copy/paste error.

Thanks,
Owen

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-12 18:36 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
2014-05-12 18:36   ` Owen Kirby [this message]

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