* Firmware during bootup [not found] ` <20111121122212.GL19069@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> @ 2011-11-21 15:28 ` anish kumar 2011-11-21 15:39 ` Borislav Petkov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: anish kumar @ 2011-11-21 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel 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. Please help me. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Firmware during bootup 2011-11-21 15:28 ` Firmware during bootup anish kumar @ 2011-11-21 15:39 ` Borislav Petkov 2011-11-21 18:01 ` Denis Kuzmenko 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Borislav Petkov @ 2011-11-21 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: anish kumar; +Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel 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. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Firmware during bootup 2011-11-21 15:39 ` Borislav Petkov @ 2011-11-21 18:01 ` Denis Kuzmenko 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Denis Kuzmenko @ 2011-11-21 18:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Borislav Petkov, anish kumar, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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