Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762192AbYFEWWT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:22:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752523AbYFEWWL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:22:11 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:44858 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752381AbYFEWWK (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:22:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records From: David Woodhouse To: Clemens Ladisch Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4847DB82.60408@ladisch.de> References: <20080605.foo@pmac.infradead.org> <4847DB82.60408@ladisch.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 23:20:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1212272451.2534.29.camel@shinybook.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: 942 Lines: 23 On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:26 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > Some devices need their firmware as a set of {address, len, data...} > > records in some specific order rather than a simple blob. > > At least in the case of EZ-USB-based devices, this is not a requirement. > It seems most tools just do not bother to order the records in Intel hex > files. Any firmware that is downloaded with the EZ-USB's "load > internal" request (0xa0) can be converted to a plain memory dump. Hm, in that case it might be worth converting this stuff into raw binaries. I'm not in a position to test, and wanted to keep my own changes as unintrusive as possible though. -- 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/