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David Woodhouse
f1485f3deb ihex: request_ihex_firmware() function to load and validate firmware
Provide a helper to load the file and validate it in one call, to
simplify error handling in the drivers which are going to use it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:47:38 +01:00
David Woodhouse
bacfe09dd7 ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records
Some devices need their firmware as a set of {address, len, data...}
records in some specific order rather than a simple blob.

The normal way of doing this kind of thing is 'ihex', which is a text
format and not entirely suitable for use in the kernel.

This provides a binary representation which is very similar, but much
more compact -- and a helper routine to skip to the next record,
because the alignment constraints mean that everybody will screw it up
for themselves otherwise.

Also a helper function which can verify that a 'struct firmware'
contains a valid set of ihex records, and that following them won't run
off the end of the loaded data.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:47:36 +01:00