lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2006]   [Aug]   [28]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)
Date
Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:11:42PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
>
>>I've tested this with the aic94xx driver using the new MODULE_FIRMWARE()
>>tag. Initramfs should be much easier because it already includes most
>>of the boot time loading; all it has to do is the piece identifying the
>>firmware for the selected modules.
...
> Notice that mkinitrd-tools is dead, and will probably be removed from etch.
>
request_firmware() is dead also.
YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel.
And please don't add new useless info _in_ it.

Nobody cares.
While this implementation exists, it wasn't well designed and hard to use.
As with in-kernel bootsplash and i18n, everything maybe done in userspace, only
with little help from the kernel:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/435955>.

Thanks.

--
-o--=O`C /. .\ (+)
#oo'L O o |
<___=E M ^-- | (you're barking up the wrong tree)

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2006-08-29 01:39    [W:0.559 / U:0.208 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site