Adding the git mailing list. Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 19:24 +0000, Dave wrote: >> I'm aware of at least a couple users of orinoco who have picked up >> corrupt firmware# from the linux-firmware tree*. >> >> I've verified that the firmware in the repository itself is correct. >> >> It appears that downloading the file using the blob/raw links from >> gitweb causes the corruption (0xc3 everywhere). At least it does with >> firefox. > > I can confirm the problem with Firefox 3.0.6. But it's not "0xc3 > everywhere". The corrupted file is a result of recoding from iso-8859-1 > to utf-8. The correct agere_sta_fw.bin is 65046 bytes long. The > corrupted agere_sta_fw.bin is 89729 bytes long. > > There is a way to recode the original binary with GNU recode: > recode utf8..iso8859-1 agere_sta_fw.bin > > wget 1.11.4 also gets a corrupted file 89729 bytes long. > > curl 7.18.2 also get the corrupted file: > > My strong impression is that the recoding takes place on the server. I > think the bug should be reported to the gitweb maintainers unless it a > local breakage on the kernel.org site. Thanks Pavel. I just did a quick scan of the gitweb README - is this an issue with the $mimetypes_file or $fallback_encoding configurations variables? Regards, Dave. #<http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-users&m=123411762524637> *<http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=shortlog> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
