Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: preferred way of fw loading | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:17:18 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 01:15 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hello, > > is preferred to have firmware in kernel binary (and go through array of chars) > or userspace (and load it through standard kernel api)?
generally the preferred way is for you to use request_firmware() API which causes userspace to upload it to you via standard mechanisms. This avoids kernel size bloat if it's not needed (by only having the firmware in memory that is really really needed) and also avoids the entire question of "can it be done within GPL" (not saying it can or cannot, but usually if someone asks its a huge flamewar and this just sidesteps the entire issue)
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