From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denis Kuzmenko Subject: Re: Firmware during bootup Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:01:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4ECA91FE.7010200@solonet.org.ua> References: <1321542430-17971-1-git-send-email-pdeschrijver@nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF1740D74C1E@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <20111118120352.GZ19069@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF1740D74E63@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <20111121122212.GL19069@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> <1321889298.1760.8.camel@anish-Inspiron-N5050> <20111121153947.GA8102@x1.osrc.amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111121153947.GA8102@x1.osrc.amd.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Borislav Petkov , anish kumar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 11/21/2011 05:39 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:28:18AM +0900, anish kumar wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I have a hardware(Noise processing chip) for which I am >> writing the driver.Is it a good idea to download the >> firmware in probe function by spawing kthread?I can't download >> the firmware using request_firmware api as this hardware >> is required during bootup for boot-up sound and request_firmware >> is out of question because of no support in user-space. >> >> Am i missing something?I am bit concerned about boot-up time >> as well. > > You could build it into the kernel, see CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE Kconfig > help for this. > You can also put it into intramfs and use usual request_firmware call. -- Best regards, Denis Kuzmenko.