From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422710AbXCWJDj (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:03:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422729AbXCWJDj (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:03:39 -0400 Received: from a222036.upc-a.chello.nl ([62.163.222.36]:36132 "EHLO laptopd505.fenrus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422710AbXCWJDi (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:03:38 -0400 Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode... From: Arjan van de Ven To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Shaohua Li , Daniel J Blueman , jamagallon@ono.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <1174642985.23136.51.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> References: <6278d2220703221645j760a8816v4b8749ea2d60e493@mail.gmail.com> <1174610594.6598.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <1174642985.23136.51.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:03:10 +0100 Message-Id: <1174640590.1158.219.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:43 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Li, > > > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > > > old firmware files to the new format (eg > > > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from > > > Intel (or otherwise) in this new format? > > Yes, we are preparing the new format data files and maybe put it into a > > new website. We will announce it when it's ready. > > please do _NOT_ use any sub-directories in the request_firmware() call. it's not a strictly a subdirectory; there is a slash in the "metaname" the kernel asks for, and you can in userspace see it as subdirectory or you don't.. that's entirely upto the userspace side :)