On Sunday, November 06, 2011 07:07:31 PM Antti Palosaari wrote: > Many thanks! > > Actually, I was just started to write similar Python script! You got > maybe 15min late but still 15min before mine was ready :) > > Format was nothing more than convert ASCII hex values to binary bytes > and stripping out all white spaces and Intel HEX start code ":". > > Why it was initially converted to binary and not used Intel HEX as it > is? I think you know, as a original author, history about that decision?
Because doing string-parsing and evaluation in the kernel is something I usually avoid. And it can't sure be done within 300 bytes (the size of the perl script). Also the .bin is smaller in term of size compared to the .hex. -- Patrick Boettcher - KernelLabs http://www.kernellabs.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
