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

Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21T11:57:06Z

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:52:00PM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> 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.

You can take my email as a report of "it doesn't work for everyone." The
*only* way I can get firmware to load is to build imx-sdma as a module.
Building it in is a hopeless case here.

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