linux-kernel - Re: Fate of ihex2fw tool

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Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 09:34:55 -0700
From:   Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
        Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Fate of ihex2fw tool

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:43 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:36:15PM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> > Everyone:
> >
> > Since commit 5620a0d1aacd554ebebcff373e31107bb1ef7769 ("firmware:
> > delete in-kernel firmware"):
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v4.19-rc7&id=5620a0d1aacd554ebebcff373e31107bb1ef7769
> >
> > firmware/ihex2fw.c is gone from the source tree and with it ihex2fw
> > tool used to generate sruct ihxed_binrec {} filled images (.ihex ->
> > .fw) consumed by request_ihex_frimware().
> >
> > I tried looking for that too in
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
> > but couldn't find it there.
> >
> > Is there a  new/different source tree it can be found nowadays?
> > Or is there another established tool that can do .ihex -> .fw
> > conversion that is expected to be used instead of ihex2bin?
>
> We've all had to write this utility over and over again over the years,
> so why not just submit a patch to add this tool back under tools/ ?
>

Sure, more that happy to do that. Just wanted to make sure that I
wasn't missing some big picture.

Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov