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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:35 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:16 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Why do we need the .ihex format? > > We should be loading firmwares exactly as they come from the vendor, > without any wrappers. It's just 'objcopy -Ibinary -Oihex foo foo.ihex'. It's purely for convenience of handling the binary blobs in git (and it means we can append licensing information after the EOF record too, if we want). -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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