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>
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>
Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader
and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary.
Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always
want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the
firmware loader.
A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
This allows them to work in a static kernel.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Fix a const pointer to non-const pointer assignment error in the Conexant
cx23418 MPEG encoder driver.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Fix an assignment of a const pointer to a non-const pointer in moxa_load_fw().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
...which means allocating our own copy when we want to modify it.
(stupid thinko fixed by mkrufky)
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
David Woodhouse
David Howells
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