Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:39:47 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Firmware during bootup |
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:28:18AM +0900, anish kumar wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a hardware(Noise processing chip) for which I am > writing the driver.Is it a good idea to download the > firmware in probe function by spawing kthread?I can't download > the firmware using request_firmware api as this hardware > is required during bootup for boot-up sound and request_firmware > is out of question because of no support in user-space. > > Am i missing something?I am bit concerned about boot-up time > as well.
You could build it into the kernel, see CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE Kconfig help for this.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris
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