Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:53:10 +0100 |
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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.
-- dwmw2
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