Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, September 23, 2010, David Woodhouse wrote:
>On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:19 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>> For CIS files (describing hardware on PCMCIA and some other busses)
>> binary file isn't the 'preferred for for modification' in most cases.
>> pcmcia-cs project have developed pack_cis program which can be used
>> (and was used most probably) to generate .cis files from simple text
>> descriptions. Import this code to the kernel under the name of mkcis.
>
>This is useful, thanks -- but NACK. The firmware/ directory of the
>kernel will hopefully die soon, and is no longer what's actually shipped
>by many distributions.
>
>We should be concentrating on the linux-firmware.git repository instead.

Unfortunately, a perusal of that git repo fails to find the amd-microcode 
tree, which contains a .bin file that brings my early 4 core phenom up to 
revision 65.

I picked that up and have been carrying it forward from a message's link 
from this list about 2 years ago, and have been carrying it locally since.  
However, I have not seen it mentioned as being used in a dmesg parse since 
2.6.35-early-rc.

Is there a good reason for this late apparent lack of using this resource?

Thanks.

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