Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: New Dell BIOS update driver | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 11 May 2005 10:49:32 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:05 -0500, Abhay Salunke wrote: > The dell_rbu driver is required for updating BIOS on DELL servers and client > systems. The driver lets a user application download the BIOS image in to > contiguous physical memory pages; the driver exposes the memory via sysfs > filesystem. The update mechanism basically has two approcahes; one by > allocating contiguous physical memory and the second approach is by allocating > small chunks of contiguous physical memory. > > The patch file is attached to this mail.
I wonder if this wouldn't be able to use the request_firmware() interface instead... I mean, it would simplify the sysfs code a lot I suspect.
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