From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757232AbYEWPA0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 11:00:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754638AbYEWPAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 11:00:11 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:40082 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753477AbYEWPAK (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 11:00:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: gsPn3RCja40fRscqDD1zLLsJOdCFrvXnMbYxbkdLcbAJ 1211554807 Message-ID: <4836DBF3.1030307@ladisch.de> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:00:03 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, 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 References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> 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 David Woodhouse wrote: > --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > + /* Built-in firmware blobs */ \ > + .builtin_fw : AT(ADDR(.builtin_fw) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ > + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_builtin_fw) = .; \ > + *(.builtin_fw) \ > + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__end_builtin_fw) = .; \ > + } \ > + \ Most drivers, when built as a module, would want their firmware images to be in the module and not in the kernel image. This would require some (un)register_builtint_firmware() function. Regards, Clemens