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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:06:46 -0400
From: "Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
cc: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@...ge.com>,
linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: convert Ambassador ATM driver to request_firmware()
In message <1212690489.32207.285.camel@...c.infradead.org>,David Woodhouse writ
es:
>On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:20 -0400, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
>> it would need to be converted to the binary form first, or the patch
>> will need to rewritten to use the s-record format.
>
>We can do binary form. We just run it through objcopy -Ibinary -Oihex
>for convenience of handling it (and that's different to the ones we
>actually hand to the kernel in the form of records).
i guess whatever you want to do. it is just as easy to distribute
the firmware with the atm tools. it would also ease your gpl concerns
which you noted in your first message.
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