[PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Sep 23 11:29:12 EDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:19 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> For CIS files (describing hardware on PCMCIA and some other busses)
> binary file isn't the 'preferred for for modification' in most cases.
> pcmcia-cs project have developed pack_cis program which can be used
> (and was used most probably) to generate .cis files from simple text
> descriptions. Import this code to the kernel under the name of mkcis.

This is useful, thanks -- but NACK. The firmware/ directory of the
kernel will hopefully die soon, and is no longer what's actually shipped
by many distributions.

We should be concentrating on the linux-firmware.git repository instead.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation




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