From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755775Ab0IWQzP (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:55:15 -0400 Received: from mail.wdtv.com ([66.118.69.84]:46867 "EHLO mail.wdtv.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754149Ab0IWQzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:55:14 -0400 From: Gene Heskett To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:55:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35.4; KDE/4.5.1; i686; ; ) References: <1285255197-9262-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <1285255197-9262-2-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <1285255752.10687.20.camel@i7.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1285255752.10687.20.camel@i7.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009231255.09443.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If Microsoft built cars, If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.