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Firmware blob looks like this...
        __le16 load_address
        unsigned char data[]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include vmalloc.h]
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11355

 by avoiding a
needless rebuild of the firmware/ihex2fw tool.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Fix both the IHEX firmware generation (len field always null, and EOF
marker a byte too short) and loading (struct ihex_binrec needs to be
packed to reflect the on-disk structure).
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Provide a .gitignore file, and fix a typo which prevented some of the
generated binary files from being removed on 'make clean'.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We're not updating the tg3 driver to use request_firmware() yet, but a
reference to its firmware accidentally slipped in as part of commit
c4667746

 ("dabusb: use request_firmware()"). Remove it again.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR gets changed, the filename in the .S file
(which uses .incbin to include the binary) needs to change. When we
renamed the BUILTIN_FIRMWARE_DIR option to EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR, we forgot
to update the manual dependency in firmware/Makefile, so it was
depending on a non-existent file in include/config/
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Firmware blob looks like this...
        uint8_t  MajorVersion
        uint8_t  MinorVersion
        __le16   BuildNumber
        uint8_t  data[]
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Version number provided in first HEX record.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Although it wasn't actually using ihex records before, we use the Intel
HEX record format for this firmware -- because that gives us a simple
way to split it into separate chunks internally as we need, without
loading each part as a separate file.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Thanks for Jaswinder Singh for converting the firmware blob itself to ihex.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Converted with help from Jaswinder Singh
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Since it had various regions to be loaded to separate addresses, and it
wanted to do them in fairly small chunks anyway, switch it to use the
new ihex code. Encode the start address in the first record.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Some drivers could do with using records like Intel HEX, but with each
record being larger than 256 bytes. This has been possible in the binary
representation (struct ihex_binrec) in the kernel since the beginning --
at least of the the current version of history. But we haven't been able
to represent that in the .HEX files which get converted to .fw files.

This adds a '-w' option to ihex2fw to make it interpret the first _two_
bytes of each line as the record length, instead of only one byte. And
adds makefile rules for %.H16->%.fw which use that.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Not the straight conversion to binary which objcopy can do for us, but
actually representing each record with its original {addr, length},
because some drivers need that information preserved.

Fix up 'firmware_install' to be able to build $(hostprogs-y) too.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

For 'make modules_install', install any firmware required by
the modules which are being installed.

Also add a 'make firmware_install' target which doesn't depend on the
configuration, but installs _all_ available in-kernel-tree firmware into
$(INSTALL_FW_PATH), which defaults to /lib/firmware. This is intended
for distributors to make arch-independent (and config-independent)
packages containing firmware.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

This will control whether we build firmware into the kernel image for
_every_ driver which we convert to request_firmware(), to avoid a
proliferation of 'CONFIG_XXX_FIRMWARE' options for each one.

Default to 'y' for now, which is the wrong thing to do but people seem
to be insisting on it and refusing to even review patches until it's
done. And it does preserve the existing behaviour for built-in drivers.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

This allows arbitrary firmware files to be included in the static kernel
where the firmware loader can find them without requiring userspace to
be alive.

(Updated and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR added with lots of help from
Johannes Berg).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>