Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Qlogic/FC firmware | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:45:26 +0100 (BST) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> There is no BIOS flash on my machines (onboard controllers). The > kernel driver must be where the firmware comes from to boot reliably.
Ok so you have a sparc specific firmware loading problem. So IMHO the right thing to do is to write a sparc specific firmware loader - either as a module living in arch/sparc64 or assuming you never need to reload the firmware past boot - use an initrd
For the other 99.9% of the userbase we saved 128Kbytes of ram and improved reliability by not loading half tested firmeware on them.
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