From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:16:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Make firmware drivers generally available Message-Id: <4DFB53B3.8070806@ladisch.de> List-Id: References: <20110617103218.GA29723@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <1308310831-27861-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> In-Reply-To: <1308310831-27861-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lars-Peter Clausen Cc: Mike Frysinger , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, Mark Brown Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > Currently only x86, ia64 and blackfin architectures include > drivers/firmware/Kconfig, as a result firmware drivers are only available on > these platforms. This has not been a problem historically, because all of the > firmware drivers were architecture specific. > > But this has changed with the addition of the SigmaStudio firmware loader > (commit e359dc24 "sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio"), > which is used to parse and load firmware files for Analog Devices' SigmaDSP > processors. It looks as if sigma.c doesn't actually belong into drivers/firmware. That directory is for code that lets the kernel access the firmware of the platform that the kernel itself runs on. The request_firmware() stuff is usually part of the actual driver that needs it. Regards, Clemens