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Message-ID: <1284193744.20200.13.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:29:04 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com"
<patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ihex: Add support for CS:IP/EIP records
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:40 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> ihex firmwares can include a jump address for starting execution. Add
> a -j option which will cause this to be written into the generated
> file as a record with address zero and data consisting of the address
> to jump to, allowing drivers to make use of this information.
Some questions...
- Which firmware blobs that are *already* in the kernel would need this?
Remember, we're not adding new crap to the kernel source tree; new
firmware images get added to linux-firmware.git instead.
- Why make the include_jump code optional? When would we ever *not* want
to include such a record -- when does the input ihex file contain such
a record that the kernel driver *must* not see because it can't cope
with it?
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com Intel Corporation
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