On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:40 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> ihex firmwares can include a jump address for starting execution. Add
> a -j option which will cause this to be written into the generated
> file as a record with address zero and data consisting of the address
> to jump to, allowing drivers to make use of this information.

Some questions...

- Which firmware blobs that are *already* in the kernel would need this?
  Remember, we're not adding new crap to the kernel source tree; new
  firmware images get added to linux-firmware.git instead.

- Why make the include_jump code optional? When would we ever *not* want
  to include such a record -- when does the input ihex file contain such
  a record that the kernel driver *must* not see because it can't cope
  with it?

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation