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From: LW@KARO-electronics.de (Lothar =?UTF-8?B?V2HDn21hbm4=?=)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:52:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v2] dma: imx-sdma: clarify firmare not found warning
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Hi,

Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:59:22AM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> > The file is automatically removed after the timeout has expired (or
> > the frimware has been loaded).
> > Thus you must check for it within the timeout period during boot.
> 
> ... which is impossible if imx-sdma is built into the kernel - it
> expires while the initramfs has only just started running, giving a
> very narrow window for userspace to load firmware.
> 
It works for me, but I'm not using initramfs.


Lothar Wa?mann
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