On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:14 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Can you elaborate on this a little. Does the driver currently take the > srec file, append/prepend some data onto it and then run it on the > target CPU? Some data in the srec file is replaced by the data read from the card (so called plug data area, or PDA). "Plugging" refers to that process. > > , so pre-compilation would have meant > > inventing both a compiler tool and an intermediate format for the driver > > to read and process. > > The srec->binary conversion just needs to be done once, and not sure > what the "extra" stuff is that you mention is required, but if its > always the same can't that just be put into a final binary file? We can use the same format as Spectrum firmware used in spectrum_cs, and reuse its parser/plugger. Spectrum and Prism chipsets are related and use the same idea of plugging, but Prism firmware is distributed as srec files, whereas Spectrum firmware is cut from binary drivers as a binary. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
