[coreboot] Dump GPIO I/O Registers

[Martin]

Russell Whitaker skrev:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
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>> Quoting Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>:
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> [..] 
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>>> dd if=/dev/ioport bs=1 skip=$[0xbasehere] count=asmanyasyouwant | xxd
>>>
>>>       
>> 3. What is the pipe xxd for?
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> The default output of dd is stdout, so it writes stdout to file xxd.
> However, why not use of=xxd instead?  Same result.
>
>     Russ
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>   
I thought the point of the pipe to xxd was to process the output into 
readable output(in hex)?

Martin