* Fate of ihex2fw tool
@ 2018-10-17 5:36 Andrey Smirnov
2018-10-17 7:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrey Smirnov @ 2018-10-17 5:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Chris Healy, Kaptain Kernel, Kyle McMartin, Andrew Morton,
Michal Marek, Masahiro Yamada, David Woodhouse,
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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?
Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov
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2018-10-17 5:36 Fate of ihex2fw tool Andrey Smirnov
@ 2018-10-17 7:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-17 16:34 ` Andrey Smirnov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2018-10-17 7:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrey Smirnov
Cc: linux-kernel, Chris Healy, Kyle McMartin, Andrew Morton,
Michal Marek, Masahiro Yamada, David Woodhouse
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/ ?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2018-10-17 7:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
@ 2018-10-17 16:34 ` Andrey Smirnov
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrey Smirnov @ 2018-10-17 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: linux-kernel, Chris Healy, Kyle McMartin, Andrew Morton,
Michal Marek, Masahiro Yamada, David Woodhouse
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:43 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.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
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