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From: Ken Kawasaki <ken_kawasaki@spring.nifty.jp>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  kernel 2.6.32-rc5] pcnet_cs: add cis of PreMax PE-200 ethernet pcmcia card
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:21:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100305202153.fb39cd64.ken_kawasaki@spring.nifty.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267747341.2819.177.camel@localhost>

Hi,

> The CIS files under firmware/ are, according to firmware/WHENCE,
> 'developed by the pcmcia-cs project'.  So I had a look at what's left of
> the pcmcia-cs project and its last release, and found that it includes:
> 
> - the tool 'pack_cis' which compiles a text version of CIS to the
>   standard binary format
> - text versions of most of the CIS files
> 
> Since the text versions contain comments which are excluded from the
> binary format, I believe they should be considered the 'preferred form
> for modification' and included in the linux-2.6 and linux-firmware trees
> along with the binaries.
> 

Actually, it is better to build CIS by "pack_cis /lib/firmware/cis/src/xxx.cis"
instead of "IHEX /lib/firmware/cis/xxx.cis".

In that case, the "pack_cis" tool should be included in the kernel-tree.

Ken.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-25  2:10 [PATCH kernel 2.6.32-rc5] pcnet_cs: add cis of PreMax PE-200 ethernet pcmcia card Ken Kawasaki
2009-10-25  2:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-05  0:02 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-05 11:21   ` Ken Kawasaki [this message]
2010-03-05 12:01     ` Ken Kawasaki
2010-03-05 12:46       ` Ben Hutchings
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-05  0:49 [PATCH] axnet_cs: fix phy_id detection for bogus Asix chip Ken Kawasaki
2009-04-18 23:44 ` [PATCH] pcnet_cs: add cis(firmware) of the Allied Telesis LA-PCM Ken Kawasaki
2009-04-26  7:29   ` [PATCH] 3c589_cs: add cis(firmware) of 3Com multifunction pcmcia card Ken Kawasaki
2009-09-13  8:22     ` [PATCH kernel 2.6.31] pcnet_cs: add cis of Linksys " Ken Kawasaki
2009-10-03 22:32       ` [PATCH kernel 2.6.32-rc1] pcnet_cs: add cis of National Semicondoctor's " Ken Kawasaki
2009-10-18  1:39         ` [PATCH kernel 2.6.32-rc5] pcnet_cs: add cis of PreMax PE-200 ethernet " Ken Kawasaki
2009-10-21 19:18           ` Dan Williams
2009-10-22 11:10             ` Ken Kawasaki
2009-10-24 20:33               ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-30  5:51           ` David Miller

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