On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:53:38PM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote: > On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:17:45 +0200 > Jan Lübbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 09:45 +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote: > > > > > > compatlen=$($FDTGET -t s "$dtb" / compatible | wc -c) > > > - echo ".int 0x640c8005" > > > - echo ".int " $compatlen > > > + echo ".byte 0x05, 0x80, 0x0c, 0x64" > > > + python -c "print(\".byte 0x%02x, 0x%02x, 0x%02x, 0x%02x\\n\" % ($compatlen & 0xff, ($compatlen >> 8) & 0xff, ($compatlen >> 16) & 0xff, ($compatlen >> 24) & 0xff))" > > > > Rather than adding a build-time dependency on python, maybe we should > > just handle this in C? > > We use sphinx for documentation generation so we already have dependency on python. > > Here is an another solution: > > - echo ".int " $compatlen > + echo ".byte " $(printf "%08x" $compatlen | sed "s/\(..\)/0x\1\n/g" | tac | xargs | sed "s/ /, /g") yet another alternative: awk -v var=$compatlen 'BEGIN { for (i = 0; i < 4; ++i) ba[i] = and(rshift(var, 8 * i), 0xff); printf ".byte 0x%02x, 0x%02x, 0x%02x, 0x%02x\n", ba[0], ba[1], ba[2], ba[3]; }' It's not shorter, but maybe a bit more obvious what it does. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox