See hex2hex and bin2hex in drivers/sound. Hannu has already written them
for you. There are problems with this however. Firstly firmware is often
large, secondly a vendor building kernels for third parties may not have it.
Its generally better to support a 'load firmware' ioctl.
> the kernel and make that data itself available? When I get some time,
> I'd like to put full symbol information in the kernel like most
> other modern unix systems do.
You mean pack System.map on the end of the zImage perhaps as a second gzip
file ?
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