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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.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ II - The DT block format @@ -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 @@ -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: @@ -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 @@ -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. @@ -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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