[PATCH v2 14/14] doc: Add man page for dumpimage

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Thu Jun 16 13:50:54 CEST 2022


On 6/13/22 00:14, Sean Anderson wrote:
> This tool seems a bit underloved. Unfortunately, it seems to be missing
> support for FIT images. Alas...
>
> Add a man page documenting it. The example is taken from commit a804b5ce2d
> ("Add dumpimage, a tool to extract data from U-Boot images").
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Ensure comments are requests
>
>   doc/dumpimage.1 | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 103 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 doc/dumpimage.1
>
> diff --git a/doc/dumpimage.1 b/doc/dumpimage.1
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..52a45a3404
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/dumpimage.1
> @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
> +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +.\" Copyright (C) 2022 Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
> +.TH DUMPIMAGE 1 2022-06-11 U-Boot
> +.SH NAME
> +dumpimage \- extract data from U-Boot images
> +.
> +.SH SYNOPSIS
> +.SY dumpimage
> +.OP \-T type
> +.BI \-l\~ image
> +.YS
> +.SY dumpimage
> +.OP \-T type

The online help shows this parameter as optional.

> +.OP \-p position

-p is optional so it should be in brackets.

> +.BI \-o\~ outfile

-o is optional.

Best regards

Heinrich

> +.I image
> +.YS
> +.SY dumpimage
> +.B \-h
> +.YS
> +.SY dumpimage
> +.B \-V
> +.YS
> +.
> +.SH DESCRIPTION
> +.B dumpimage
> +lists and extracts data from U-Boot images. If
> +.B \-l
> +is specified,
> +.B dumpimage
> +lists the components in
> +.IR image .
> +Otherwise,
> +.B dumpimage
> +extracts the component at
> +.IR position " to " outfile .
> +.
> +.SH OPTIONS
> +.TP
> +.B \-h
> +Print usage information and exit.
> +.
> +.TP
> +.B \-l
> +Print the header information for
> +.IR image ,
> +including a list of components.
> +.
> +.TP
> +.BI \-o " outfile"
> +The file to write the dumped component to.
> +.TP
> +.BI \-p " position"
> +Specify the
> +.I position
> +of the component to dump. This should be a numeric index, starting at 0. If not
> +specified, the default
> +.I position
> +is 0.
> +.
> +.TP
> +.BI \-T " type"
> +Specify the
> +.I type
> +of the image. If not specified, the image type will be automatically detected. A
> +list of supported image types may be printed by running
> +.BR "mkimage\~\-T\~list" .
> +.
> +.TP
> +.B \-V
> +Print version information and exit.
> +.
> +.SH BUGS
> +Please report bugs to the
> +.UR https://\:source\:.denx\:.de/\:u-boot/\:u-boot/\:issues
> +U-Boot bug tracker
> +.UE .
> +.SH EXAMPLES
> +Create a multi-file image and then extract part of that image
> +.PP
> +.EX
> +.in +4
> +$ \c
> +.B mkimage \-A x86 \-O linux \-T multi \-n x86 \\\\\&
> +.in +4
> +.B \-d vmlinuz:initrd.img:System.map multi.img
> +.in
> +Image Name:   x86
> +Created:      Thu Jul 25 10:29:13 2013
> +Image Type:   Intel x86 Linux Multi-File Image (gzip compressed)
> +Data Size:    13722956 Bytes = 13401.32 kB = 13.09 MB
> +Load Address: 00000000
> +Entry Point:  00000000
> +Contents:
> +   Image 0: 4040128 Bytes = 3945.44 kB = 3.85 MB
> +   Image 1: 7991719 Bytes = 7804.41 kB = 7.62 MB
> +   Image 2: 1691092 Bytes = 1651.46 kB = 1.61 MB
> +$ \c
> +.B dumpimage -p 2 -o System.map multi.img
> +.EE
> +.in
> +.SH SEE ALSO
> +.BR mkimage (1)



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