Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 23 May 2008 16:11:56 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:56 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be > > used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd. > > This allows them to work in a static kernel. > > This makes a lot of sense to me - its small, clean and while I don't > think its relevant to the PC world it has real clear advantages to the > embedded space. > > For the embedded case isn't either compressing the firmware or not doing > the vmalloc/copy worth the effort however ?
For avoiding the vmalloc/copy see my earlier response.
Adding compression would be cute; I did think about that but figured it could wait for later (actually I think at the time I meant "later" to be today too, but then I forgot :)
-- dwmw2
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