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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index 5e89497ba314..22c33398ec02 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst @@ -625,6 +625,38 @@ Examples:: %p4cc Y10 little-endian (0x20303159) %p4cc NV12 big-endian (0xb231564e) +Generic FourCC code +------------------- + +:: + %p4c[hnbl] gP00 (0x67503030) + +Print a generic FourCC code, as both ASCII characters and its numerical +value as hexadecimal. + +The additional ``h``, ``r``, ``b``, and ``l`` specifiers are used to specify +host, reversed, big or little endian order data respectively. Host endian +order means the data is interpreted as a 32-bit integer and the most +significant byte is printed first; that is, the character code as printed +matches the byte order stored in memory on big-endian systems, and is reversed +on little-endian systems. + +Passed by reference. + +Examples for a little-endian machine, given &(u32)0x67503030:: + + %p4ch gP00 (0x67503030) + %p4cl gP00 (0x67503030) + %p4cb 00Pg (0x30305067) + %p4cr 00Pg (0x30305067) + +Examples for a big-endian machine, given &(u32)0x67503030:: + + %p4ch gP00 (0x67503030) + %p4cl 00Pg (0x30305067) + %p4cb gP00 (0x67503030) + %p4cr 00Pg (0x30305067) + Thanks ====== |