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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:44:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090819154437.GA729@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250665599.4545.3.camel@localhost>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:06:39AM +0100, Karl Relton wrote:
> Convert prism2_usb firmware loading to load firmware in pre-compiled
> binary 'ihex' format rather than ascii 'srec' format. This moves the
> srec processing and sorting of records out of kernel space into a
> pre-compiler. The driver now just works with the binary image, but
> still does the 'pda plugging' of that image at runtime, as required
> by the prism hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com>


Are the firmware images updated somewhere?  Like in the linux-firmware
tree?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-19 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-19  7:06 [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format Karl Relton
2009-08-19 15:44 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-08-19 16:20   ` Karl Relton
2009-08-19 16:34     ` Greg KH
2009-08-19 17:39       ` Karl Relton
2009-08-19 18:14         ` Greg KH
2009-08-20  7:40           ` Karl Relton

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