Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 11:27:50 +1000 |
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On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 23:17 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > If the firmware has a compatible license and is required for critical > > operations like booting the machine, built-in firmware should remain an > > option. For certain embedded cases, I could certainly see that > > in-kernel firmware being the best method for firmware distribution, for > > both $Platform's users and $Platform's developers. > > I certainly agree, pushing more and more into initrd just annoys the > hell out of me. > > I'd argue to include everything needed to build (and esp cross build) an > initrd into the kernel - up until that point initrds are useless.
Us kernel hackers tend to like self-contained netbootable kernels that have everything needed to boot a machine all the way to a shell prompt :-)
David's proposal however do provides for storing the firmwares in the kernel image, so I have no objection there.
Ben.
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