Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 02:27, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > > Dear Simon, > > In message <20210720132940.1171011-14-...@chromium.org> you wrote: > > In some cases it is useful to be able to supply a binary value to a > > command. Use the '0y' prefix for this (binarY). > > We also don't handle octal input yet, and also miss a number of > other interesting numberbases, like 42. > > But ... do we really *need* all this stuff?
No... I added binary as an RFC because I have found a few cases where it is nice to be able to specify the bits (e.g. programming GPIOs). We could update 'md' to support it too. I added octal as an RFC since the current impl is almost never available (only when 0 is parted to simple_strtoul()) which seems odd. > > %% (signatures) > Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, > but when there is no longer anything to take away. > - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Well, yes. Perhaps we should just drop octal? Regards, Simon
