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SubjectRe: Firmware during bootup
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.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris


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