Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761274AbYFETys (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:54:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752393AbYFETyj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:54:39 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58470 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751402AbYFETyi (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:54:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() From: David Woodhouse To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <48483BA9.1070200@garzik.org> References: <20080605.foo@pmac.infradead.org> <48483BA9.1070200@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:35 +0100 Message-Id: <1212695675.32207.288.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 18 On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:16 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Why do we need the .ihex format? > > We should be loading firmwares exactly as they come from the vendor, > without any wrappers. It's just 'objcopy -Ibinary -Oihex foo foo.ihex'. It's purely for convenience of handling the binary blobs in git (and it means we can append licensing information after the EOF record too, if we want). -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/