CONFIG-ROM-PRETTY-PRINTER(8)

📦 version 0.5.1, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 config-rom-pretty-printer(8) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is from the linux-firewire-utils collection and it is literally the IEEE 1212 / IEEE 1394 Configuration ROM pretty printer ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

config-rom-pretty-printer — the IEEE 1212 / IEEE 1394 Configuration ROM pretty printer, no cap 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

config-rom-pretty-printer < file
cat file | config-rom-pretty-printer

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: config-rom-pretty-printer is a lil utility that reads Configuration ROM data from stdin and writes a human-readable, annotated representation to stdout. it's giving translator, but for binary 💖

the data it eats may be binary data formatted by IEEE 1212 (ISO/IEC 13213). yes that exact spec, no substitutions 🫶

okay now the lore, because this tool has history:

  • it was firstly written by Stefan Richter in 2010 as a Python 2 script, under a unique license 👑
  • the current version was written by Takashi Sakamoto in 2023 as a C language program under the GPL v2 license 🌈
  • and heads up — the current version drops some legacy functions that the original one supported 😭 so if you came here expecting the old Python 2 era features, that's a no from this rewrite

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? don't be shy, report it to <"linux1394-devel@sourceforge.net"> 📩

the linux-firewire-utils home page is right here, bestie: <"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/ieee1394/linux-firewire-utils.git/">

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

lsfirewire(8) lsfirewirephy(8), firewire-request(8) firewire-phy-command(8)

go read those too, they're iconic 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌟 this one comes from the linux-firewire-utils manual set, and the page itself is dated 5 Jun 2011, filed under config-rom-pretty-printer(8). mwah, go pretty-print some config ROMs 💅✨

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