linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:20:51 +0100
From:	Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@...world.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load
 binary ihex format

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 <karllinuxtest.relton@...world.com>
> 
> 
> Are the firmware images updated somewhere?  Like in the linux-firmware
> tree?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

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