From: Denis Kuzmenko <linux@solonet.org.ua>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Firmware during bootup
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:01:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECA91FE.7010200@solonet.org.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111121153947.GA8102@x1.osrc.amd.com>
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.
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2011-11-21 15:28 ` Firmware during bootup anish kumar
2011-11-21 15:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-11-21 18:01 ` Denis Kuzmenko [this message]
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