[U-Boot-Users] Reading out version_string from a binary

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20061121130236.GC3803 at igloo.df.lth.se> you wrote:
> 
> I use U-Boot (1.1.4) on a custom PowerPC (MPC8347) based board, and from
> my application I need to read out the value of version_string from the
> U-Boot binary, for logging. I've written some code that does this (see
> attached sample program), but would like some comments if someone has
> suggestions on how to do it more robust.

Why make it so complicated?

For me, a simple

	strings -a u-boot.bin  | grep 'U-Boot '

usually does the job.

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ubootver.c"

That's >100 lines of error-prone C code versus 1 line of shell...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de
"A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch
dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension."
- Mandelbrot, _The Fractal Geometry of Nature_