From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758634AbYEWPJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 11:09:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758031AbYEWPJs (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 11:09:48 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:51662 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751600AbYEWPJr (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 11:09:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:56:10 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: David Woodhouse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Haroldo Gamal , Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image Message-ID: <20080523155610.2ec5ffd0@core> In-Reply-To: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 ?