Re: Fate of ihex2fw tool

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:36:15PM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> Since commit 5620a0d1aacd554ebebcff373e31107bb1ef7769 ("firmware:
> delete in-kernel firmware"):
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v4.19-rc7&id=5620a0d1aacd554ebebcff373e31107bb1ef7769
> 
> firmware/ihex2fw.c is gone from the source tree and with it ihex2fw
> tool used to generate sruct ihxed_binrec {} filled images (.ihex ->
> .fw) consumed by request_ihex_frimware().
> 
> I tried looking for that too in
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
> but couldn't find it there.
> 
> Is there a  new/different source tree it can be found nowadays?
> Or is there another established tool that can do .ihex -> .fw
> conversion that is expected to be used instead of ihex2bin?

We've all had to write this utility over and over again over the years,
so why not just submit a patch to add this tool back under tools/ ?

thanks,

greg k-h