From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26897 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2009 15:15:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 26573 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Apr 2009 15:15:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.redhat.com (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:15:29 +0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n31FFOGY010785; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:15:25 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n31FFOcU019548; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:15:25 -0400 Received: from [10.33.6.19] (vpn-6-19.fab.redhat.com [10.33.6.19]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n31FFMcW010905; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:15:23 -0400 Message-ID: <49D38509.6030109@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:15:00 -0000 From: Nick Clifton User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prafulla Thakare CC: binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Contributing the Unifile utility for merging Mot or Hex files. References: <82C3BC9106BCE149B63464D79D0A22FD09454A3E@sohm.kpit.com> In-Reply-To: <82C3BC9106BCE149B63464D79D0A22FD09454A3E@sohm.kpit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 Hi Prafulla, > We have released a utility, named as Unifile, that merges two or more > Motorola format files (commonly known as Mot file or S-Record file) > or Intel format files (commonly known as Hex file) to generate a > single Motorola format file (S-Record / Mot file) or Intel format file. > We would like to contribute this utility (along with sources) as a > part of the GNU binary utilities. We propose the following two > options for contributing the Unifile utility to FSF: > > 1. Add this utility to GNU binary utilities as a standalone utility. > User will need to invoke it separately and merge the input > (Mot or Hex) files. > > 2. Develop patch to integrate this utility with GNU linker. > An option can be added to the linker to merge the input (Mot or Hex) > files. I think that option 2 is the one that I prefer. It makes sense to me that the linker should be able to treat IHEX or S-REC files as inputs and combine them into a single IHEX/S-REC format output. Cheers Nick