From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com,
Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Haroldo Gamal <gamal@alternex.com.br>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:56:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080523155610.2ec5ffd0@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
> A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
> used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
> This allows them to work in a static kernel.
This makes a lot of sense to me - its small, clean and while I don't
think its relevant to the PC world it has real clear advantages to the
embedded space.
For the embedded case isn't either compressing the firmware or not doing
the vmalloc/copy worth the effort however ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 13:44 [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:59 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 17:13 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:07 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 14:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 15:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:34 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 18:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-24 19:23 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 19:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 9:49 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 11:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 12:14 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 13:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 18:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 13:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:18 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-26 8:57 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 12:05 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:19 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:45 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:27 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 14:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 14:18 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 14:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:23 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:39 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:53 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:03 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:21 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 8:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 17:17 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 3:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:01 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:09 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 3:13 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 12:53 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 13:08 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-26 17:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 17:11 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-23 14:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:58 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:19 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 15:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 17:21 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:14 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 21:04 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 23:28 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-23 15:11 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:00 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-05-23 15:20 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:37 ` David Dillow
2008-05-23 16:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-23 16:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-23 17:06 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 17:49 ` David Woodhouse
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