diff --git a/util/scripts/convert.sh b/util/scripts/convert.sh
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+++ b/util/scripts/convert.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# This file is part of the coreboot project.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2011 The ChromiumOS Authors.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Use this file to convert intel microcode represented as an assembler source
+# (with `dd <hex number>h' in each line) into a C source (each number
+# represented as `0x<num>, ', four per line.
+#
+# convert.sh 'intel asm file' > 'coreboot C file'
+#
+
+awk '
+BEGIN { n = 0 };
+{ sub(";.*", ""); }
+ /^dd / {
+ sub ("^dd 0","dd ");
+ sub ("h.*$","", $2);
+ printf (" 0x%s,", $2);
+ n = n + 1;
+ if (n ==4) {
+    printf ("\n");
+    n = 0;
+ }
+}' $1
diff --git a/util/scripts/xml_converter.sh b/util/scripts/xml_converter.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script is a filter processing XML files.
+#
+# Processing is as follows:
+#
+# - get rid of DOS line ends;
+# - place each opening tag on a separate line, with no leading spaces and the
+#   first attribute definition following the tag name;
+# - place each attribute definition on a separate line, starting with a space;
+#
+# usage:
+#  xml_converter.sh '<unformatted-xml-file>' > '<formatted-xml-file>'
+#
+cat $1 | sed 's/></>\n</g;
+s/\r$//;
+s/^[\t ]\+//;
+s/" /"\n /g;
+s/^/ /;
+s/^ </</;
+/^\s*$/d;'