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author | Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com> | 2022-06-25 20:12:21 +0300 |
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committer | Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com> | 2022-07-13 21:05:49 +0300 |
commit | e297f874a174ae932b0511de97f1e02528980658 (patch) | |
tree | 83790c31cd9a3c004d9b321a9b42fb00cc02bbed /doc/dumpimage.1 | |
parent | b42168c125be1964b95dd97469fbd98fff985157 (diff) | |
download | u-boot-e297f874a174ae932b0511de97f1e02528980658.tar.xz |
doc: Add man page for dumpimage
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@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/dumpimage.1')
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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@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 +.OP \-p position +.BI \-o\~ outfile +.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) |