From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753188AbZHSQ3u (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:29:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752717AbZHSQ3t (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:29:49 -0400 Received: from queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.33]:24380 "EHLO queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751045AbZHSQ3s (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:29:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format From: Karl Relton To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090819154437.GA729@kroah.com> References: <1250665599.4545.3.camel@localhost> <20090819154437.GA729@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:20:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1250698851.4323.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=77gSv6d_8poA:10 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=4LfcpmYkVpcdvqRNO00A:9 a=lL-L4dknxU0NDalZ6qsA:7 a=2pkFQK9VfCjo0ILLUorBvyGZT1MA:4 a=_dQi-Dcv4p4A:10 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I plan to give the various distributions a utility to pre-compile the firmware. It is based on ihex2fw.c. I don't think the firmware will ever be accepted into linux-firmware because the original licensing cannot be established. Karl On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 08:44 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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 > > > Are the firmware images updated somewhere? Like in the linux-firmware > tree? > > thanks, > > greg k-h >