Re: [PATCH 10/18] ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:26 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Some devices need their firmware as a set of {address, len, data...}
> > records in some specific order rather than a simple blob.
> 
> At least in the case of EZ-USB-based devices, this is not a requirement.
> It seems most tools just do not bother to order the records in Intel hex
> files.  Any firmware that is downloaded with the EZ-USB's "load
> internal" request (0xa0) can be converted to a plain memory dump.

Hm, in that case it might be worth converting this stuff into raw
binaries. I'm not in a position to test, and wanted to keep my own
changes as unintrusive as possible though.

-- 
dwmw2

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