Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:57:24 -0700 |
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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?
--- 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): -- dwmw2
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