Subject: Re: Intel HEX parser for firmload(9)
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/13/2007 16:41:26
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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 and Intel HEX have almost the same structure and use the same ASCII 
encoding.

 - Arnaud