From: Keith Hopkins <vger@hopnet.net>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AIC94xx SAS question.
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:58:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4812B66A.5000105@hopnet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421231940.GB5656@animx.eu.org>
On 04/22/2008 07:19 AM, Wakko Warner wrote:
> Can either of these be done:
> 1) Embed the firmware into the driver so that it can be used before the
> rootfs id mounted.
I think this is generally not done because firmware tends to be closed-source.
> 2) Can the firmware be loaded in an initr{d,amfs}?
Sure. openSuSE does it in their mkinitrd.
--Keith
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-26 5:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-21 23:19 AIC94xx SAS question Wakko Warner
2008-04-26 4:58 ` Keith Hopkins [this message]
2008-04-26 14:56 ` Wakko Warner
2008-04-26 15:56 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-29 1:46 ` Wakko Warner
2008-04-27 5:31 ` Keith Hopkins
2008-04-28 9:35 ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-04-29 2:04 ` Wakko Warner
2008-04-29 7:41 ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-04-29 1:53 ` Wakko Warner
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2008-04-22 22:10 Wakko Warner
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