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

Fredrik Roubert fredrik.roubert at barco.com
Tue Nov 21 17:18:59 CET 2006


On Tue 21 Nov 15:47 CET 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Why make it so complicated?

Oh, I'm not doing this for myself ...

> For me, a simple
>
> 	strings -a u-boot.bin  | grep 'U-Boot '
>
> usually does the job.

That's the normal way to do it and it's a good way to do it, except for
that my employer doesn't want a solution that reads through the whole
binary.

Cheers // Fredrik Roubert

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