> > Is the firmware in Motorola SREC format? I thought the kernel had a > > helper for that, but a quick search did not find it. So maybe i'm > > remembering wrongly. But it seems silly for every driver to implement > > an SREC parser. > > Oh, I didn't know this format. Its often used in small deeply embedded systems. Microcontrollers, rather than something which can run Linux. > The firmware seems indeed to match this format > specification. > I found two reference of this Firmware format in the kernel: > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.5.7/source/sound/soc/codecs/zl38060.c#L178 > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.5.7/source/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c Ah, all inside a header file. Probably why i missed it. But ihex is not SREC. ihex came from Intel. SREC from Motorola. So i would follow the basic flow in include/linux/ihex.h, add an include/linux/srec.h but adapt it for SREC. Andrew
