From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
matt_domsch@dell.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: New Dell BIOS update driver
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:49:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115801373.6029.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050510220520.GA30741@littleblue.us.dell.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-11 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-10 22:05 Abhay Salunke
2005-05-10 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-11 8:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-11 7:19 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 8:49 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-05-11 9:57 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-05-11 22:05 ` Matt Domsch
2005-05-11 15:25 Abhay_Salunke
2005-05-11 18:21 Abhay_Salunke
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1115801373.6029.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org \
--to=arjan@infradead.org \
--cc=Abhay_Salunke@dell.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=matt_domsch@dell.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®