Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:32:12 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [..] just make the kernel able to look up binary blobs in the same place > it installed them.
Obviously, we'd want to make it dynamically configurable, ie the same way we specify where to find 'modprobe', let people specify (in /proc/kernel/firmware-dir or something) where to find the firmware. Just default it to something sane (that obviously matches where we installed them).
I'm not a huge udevd fan, obviously. I think we can short-circuit this all in the name of expediency, with udevd as a fallback, not as the only way.
Linus
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