On Dec 31, 2010, Nic Alvaro <[email protected]> wrote:
> How is Boot.S compiled into the kernel? I did not see it written in any
> Makefile.
It's not. bootcode.bin is pre-assembled, and it's installed as
firmware, requested by av7110_hw.c.
> Are these free and hence should not be removed
> firmware/av7110/bootcode.bin.ihex ?
> firmware/dsp56k/bootstrap.bin.ihex ?
Correct, both are Free. There's a loop early in the deblob-<kver>
script that checks for the presence of the sources for pre-assembled
binary firmware files:
firmware/dsp56k/bootstrap.bin.ihex \
firmware/dsp56k/bootstrap.asm \
firmware/keyspan_pda/keyspan_pda.HEX \
firmware/keyspan_pda/keyspan_pda.S \
firmware/keyspan_pda/xircom_pgs.HEX \
firmware/keyspan_pda/xircom_pgs.S \
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