tree 1f8b50e22439ef6d65089b3c5f875a6943b9c9df
parent 88ecf814c47f577248751ddbe9626d98aeef5783
author David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 1212145047 +0300
committer David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> 1215697656 +0100

ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records

Some devices need their firmware as a set of {address, len, data...}
records in some specific order rather than a simple blob.

The normal way of doing this kind of thing is 'ihex', which is a text
format and not entirely suitable for use in the kernel.

This provides a binary representation which is very similar, but much
more compact -- and a helper routine to skip to the next record,
because the alignment constraints mean that everybody will screw it up
for themselves otherwise.

Also a helper function which can verify that a 'struct firmware'
contains a valid set of ihex records, and that following them won't run
off the end of the loaded data.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>