Thread: Where does the N900 firmware come from?
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egoshin is offline egoshin
2010-09-14 , 01:26
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Originally Posted by justforfun View Post
And in the source code, I cannot find the bin files. So my question is when building the maemo kernel image, where do the bin files come from?
That stuff is not needed for kernel. It is microprograms inside big chips (radio, WiFi etc) but not for ARM which runs Linux kernel.

It is loaded in chips once during upgrade or may be once after each kernel boot directly into chips.
 

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