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Some Documentation fixes and generalizations.

PATCH In review Jon Loeliger 2 participants 2 messages Oct 3, 2008 – Oct 4, 2008 1 message not in the archive Documentation

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PATCH 1/1 Some Documentation fixes and generalizations.

Updated a jdl.com URL reference.

Generalized the new section IV to be "Utility Tools" and added a small blurb about ftdump as well.

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 Documentation/manual.txt |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Documentation/manual.txt +20 -6
index 0674384..f8a8a7b 100644
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ II - The DT block format
 
 III - libfdt
 
-IV - Conversion to Version 1
+IV - Utility Tools
+    1) convert-dtsv0 -- Conversion to Version 1
+    1) ftdump
 
 
 I - "dtc", the device tree compiler
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ I - "dtc", the device tree compiler
 Source code for the Device Tree Compiler can be found at jdl.com.
 The gitweb interface is:
 
-    http://www.jdl.com/git_repos/
+    http://git.jdl.com/gitweb/
 
 The repository is here:
 
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ The repository is here:
 
 Tarballs of the 1.0.0 and latest releases are here:
 
-    http://www.jdl.com/software/dtc-1.0.0.tgz
+    http://www.jdl.com/software/dtc-v1.2.0.tgz
     http://www.jdl.com/software/dtc-latest.tgz
 
 
@@ -620,8 +622,11 @@ III - libfdt
 This library should be merged into dtc proper.
 This library should likely be worked into U-Boot and the kernel.
 
-IV - Conversion to Version 1
-============================
+
+IV - Utility Tools
+==================
+
+1) convert-dtsv0 -- Conversion to Version 1
 
 convert-dtsv0 is a small utility program which converts (DTS)
 Device Tree Source from the obsolete version 0 to version 1.
@@ -630,9 +635,18 @@ Version 1 DTS files are marked by line "/dts-v1/;" at the top of the file.
 
 The syntax of the convert-dtsv0 command line is:
 
-convert-dtsv0 [<input_filename ... >]
+    convert-dtsv0 [<input_filename ... >]
 
 Each file passed will be converted to the new /dts-v1/ version by creating
 a new file with a "v1" appended the filename.
 
 Comments, empty lines, etc. are preserved.
+
+
+2) ftdump -- Flat Tree dumping utility
+
+The ftdump program prints a readable version of a flat device tree file.
+
+The syntax of the ftdump command line is:
+
+    ftdump <DTB-file-name>
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Quoted 6 lines · Jon Loeliger

Updated a jdl.com URL reference.

Generalized the new section IV to be "Utility Tools" and added a small blurb about ftdump as well.

Looks good.

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