linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request

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Message-Id: <1212695675.32207.288.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
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

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