DTC(1)

NAME

dtc - OpenFirmware Device Tree Compiler

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/dtc [options] <input file>

DESCRIPTION

This tool compiles device-tree descriptions for booting PowerPC kernels on embedded systems without OpenFirmware.

OPTIONS

-h Display help text.

-q Quiet:
-q - Suppress warnings.
-qq - Suppress errors.
-qqq - Suppress all.
-I <input format>

Input formats are:
dts - device tree source text
dtb - device tree blob
fs - /proc/device-tree style directory
-o <output file>

Dump the result into a file, instead of stdout.
-O <output format>

Output formats are:
dts - device tree source text
dtb - device tree blob
asm - assembler source
-V <output version>

Blob version to produce. The default is 17 (only relevant for dtb and asm output).
-R <number>

Make space for <number> reserve map entries (only relevant for dtb and asm output).
-S <bytes>

Make the blob at least <bytes> long (extra space).
-b <number>

Set the physical boot CPU.
-f Force - try to produce output even if the input tree has errors.
-v Print DTC version and exit.

AUTHOR

dtc was written by David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>. Since April 1, 2006, Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> assumes maintainership.

This manual page was written by Aurlien GRME <ag@roxor.cx>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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