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People don't like them and think they're errors.

Leave the __fw_install one though; when 'make firmware_install' does
nothing, it's best to have a 'Nothing to be done for...' message rather
than just doing nothing.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

This means that we no longer need write access to the source tree while
doing 'make modules_install'.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Also fix unwanted rebuilds of the firmware/ihex2fw tool by including
the .ihex2fw.cmd file when present.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Not the straight conversion to binary which objcopy can do for us, but
actually representing each record with its original {addr, length},
because some drivers need that information preserved.

Fix up 'firmware_install' to be able to build $(hostprogs-y) too.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

For 'make modules_install', install any firmware required by
the modules which are being installed.

Also add a 'make firmware_install' target which doesn't depend on the
configuration, but installs _all_ available in-kernel-tree firmware into
$(INSTALL_FW_PATH), which defaults to /lib/firmware. This is intended
for distributors to make arch-independent (and config-independent)
packages containing firmware.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>