Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:45:55 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, 15 of July 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:49 -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Sam, why do we have FORCE on the rules for $(hostprogs-y)? It forces the > > ihex2fw tool to be rebuilt, which in turn forces all .HEX->.fw > > conversions to happen again, which means that 'make modules_install' > > wants to write to the source tree. That's a problem in some strange > > situations like Rafael's, where he builds on another host and exports > > the tree read-only by NFS. > > > > Can we do this? ... > > Alternatively, Rafael, does this do it for you?
No, it doesn't.
> --- a/firmware/Makefile > +++ b/firmware/Makefile > @@ -150,11 +150,11 @@ $(obj)/%: $(obj)/%.ihex | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) > # is actually meaningful, because the firmware has to be loaded in a certain > # order rather than as a single binary blob. Thus, we convert them into our > # more compact binary representation of ihex records (<linux/ihex.h>) > -$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.HEX $(obj)/ihex2fw | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) > +$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.HEX | $(obj)/ihex2fw $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) > $(call cmd,ihex2fw) > > # .H16 is our own modified form of Intel HEX, with 16-bit length for records. > -$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.H16 $(obj)/ihex2fw | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) > +$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.H16 | $(obj)/ihex2fw $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) > $(call cmd,h16tofw) > > $(firmware-dirs): >
Rafael
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