From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: mainline aic94xx firmware woes
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:11:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060925101124.GH6374@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> (raw)
Hi,
The recently merged aic94xx in mainline requires external firmware
support. This, in turn, necessitates an initrd/initramfs environment
that includes firmware support to load the firmware. Will a patch to
optionally include the firmware inline in the kernel and thus not
having to use an initramfs be acceptable?
Also, aic94xx does not compile unless FW_LOADER is set in .config due
to missing 'request_firmware'. What's the right thing to do here -
aic94xx selecting it, depending on it, or FW_LOADER providing empty
request_firmware() in case it's compiled out (the last one violates
the principle of least surprise IMHO).
Cheers,
Muli
next reply other threads:[~2006-09-25 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-25 10:11 Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2006-09-25 10:34 ` mainline aic94xx firmware woes Jesper Juhl
2006-09-25 11:30 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-25 14:07 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-09-25 11:33 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-25 11:38 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-25 14:10 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-09-25 20:49 ` Denis Vlasenko
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