From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754800AbYEWQjW (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751597AbYEWQjD (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:39:03 -0400 Received: from lap75545.ornl.gov ([160.91.210.54]:38668 "EHLO lap75545.ornl.gov" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751278AbYEWQjB (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:39:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image From: David Dillow To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Haroldo Gamal , Takashi Iwai In-Reply-To: <20080523162101.GA31107@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080523162101.GA31107@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:37:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1211560634.30637.16.camel@lap75545.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-4.fc8) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 18:21 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > But do we need the firmware after init? > In other owrds could it be inside a discard after init block? I think that'll depend on the device. The typhoon NIC driver needs its firmware on 'ifconfig eth? up', and on resume, so it will need it after we discard the init block. I expect others will need it at the very least for resume. Not that I'm using firmware loader for it right now, but it's been on my TODO list for ages... Dave