From: Simon Farnsworth <simon.farnsworth@onelan.com>
To: Paulo Assis <pj.assis@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adaptec VideOh! DVD Media Center
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:27:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2B916E.9080406@onelan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59cf47a80912180605o41708efao769d09d46b20a87e@mail.gmail.com>
Paulo Assis wrote:
> For the box to function it needs a firmware upload. Currently this is
> managed by a udev script that in turn calls an application (multiload)
> that provides for the upload.
> What I would like to know is, if this the best way to handle it?
> The problem with this process is that it will always require
> installing and configuring additional software (multiload and udev
> script), besides the firmware.
> Is there any simpler/standard way of handling these firmware uploads ?
>
Look at Documentation/firmware_class/README. There's a mechanism called
request_firmware() that does what you want; it's used in several V4L
drivers if you need an example usage.
--
Simon Farnsworth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 14:05 Adaptec VideOh! DVD Media Center Paulo Assis
2009-12-18 14:27 ` Simon Farnsworth [this message]
2009-12-18 14:44 ` Devin Heitmueller
2009-12-18 14:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-22 22:47 ` Paulo Assis
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