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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:26:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4847DB82.60408@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K4C9q-0001dA-5i@bombadil.infradead.org>

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.


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05  9:52 [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 12:52 ` [PATCH 01/18] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 12:58 ` [PATCH 02/18] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-26 22:01 ` [PATCH 04/18] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-29  8:01 ` [PATCH 03/18] firmware: Add 'firmware_install' make target David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 11:48 ` [PATCH 05/18] firmware: convert maestro3 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 12:07 ` [PATCH 06/18] firmware: convert ymfpci " David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 13:39 ` [PATCH 07/18] smctr: use request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 14:17 ` [PATCH 08/18] kaweth: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 16:50 ` [PATCH 09/18] ttusb-budget: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 10:57 ` [PATCH 10/18] ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 12:26   ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2008-05-31 22:20     ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 12:15 ` [PATCH 14/18] keyspan_pda: use request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 15:49 ` [PATCH 17/18] ti_usb_3410_5052: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 22:35 ` [PATCH 18/18] whiteheat: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-31 12:07 ` [PATCH 12/18] ihex: add ihex2fw tool for converting HEX files into firmware images David Woodhouse
2008-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH 11/18] ihex: request_ihex_firmware() function to load and validate firmware David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 10:07 ` [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-06-05 10:09   ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 12:26 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-06-05 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-05 19:54   ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 20:12     ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-05 20:53       ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 21:01         ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 21:22           ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 21:33             ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 22:15               ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 22:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 22:18   ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 22:39     ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 22:45       ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-06  9:15   ` Alan Cox

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