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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware()
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On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 16:12 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Well, I should ask, is this purely an internal build detail?
>
> The developer (and user) should never ever see a .ihex file, outside of
> an active kernel compile. Wrapping the original firmware makes it more
> difficult to verify, compare and/or change. In-tree, we should see the
> vendor firmware blobs as shipped, with no wrapping or modification or
> anything.

It's a build-and-shipping detail, at least in the kernel source tree.

Rather than putting binary blobs into git (which admittedly we could,
but it's suboptimal), we just run them through 'objcopy -Oihex' first.

It's not 'wrapped'; it's not any more difficult to verify, compare or
change.

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dwmw2



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