[PATCH v2] dma: imx-sdma: clarify firmare not found warning

Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20T15:11:52Z

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 03:09:02PM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:36:27PM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> > > In case user space firmware loading support (CONFIG_FW_LOADER) is
> > > enabled, this message may still be inadequate, since the firmware may
> > > very well be loaded lateron.
> >
> > I haven't worked out whether that's actually possible - I saw no way to
> > re-trigger the firmware request, and once the firmware request expires,
> > there seems to be no way for userspace to say "okay, the firmware is now
> > available, please load it".
> >
> I can confirm that it does work, since I'm using it.
> I have the following in my /etc/init.d/mdev.sh script:
> | [ "$VERBOSE" = no ] || echo -n "Triggering firmware load"
> | for dir in $(find /sys/class/firmware/ -type l);do
> | echo add > "$dir/uevent"
> | done

I can't check on iMX6 at the moment, but I did look in that directory
after the iMX6 SDMA reported that it hadn't found any firmware, and
it was empty apart from the "timeout" file.

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Estimate before purchase was "up to 13.2Mbit".