# Joerg Sonnenberger 2007-07-13:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:44:12AM -0600, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > Just jumping in the middle here without the background, but I've  
> > written s-record and intel-hex parsers for other embedded systems and  
> > they can be written with very little code which begets the question  
> > why you'd support a proprietary parser over an industry standard parser?
> 
> I don't want to have to allocate two large chunks of memory in the
> kernel to decode it. The image format should be directly usable from the
> loaded buffer (heck, maybe even from the UBC). I don't know about
> s-record, but intel-hex certainly doesn't fill that promise.

S-Record doesn't either, it's the same spirit as Intel HEX, just better
designed.

	-- Jachym