From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mainline aic94xx firmware woes
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:07:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060925140730.GO6374@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060925113042.GA18946@aepfle.de>
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:30:42PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> initramfs is always in use. Wether you pass in an additional image via
> the bootloader is up to you.
> Adding the firmware and required tools to your vmlinux binary is trivial
> with CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/some/file"
Thanks, I'll look into this.
Cheers,
Muli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-25 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-25 10:11 mainline aic94xx firmware woes Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-09-25 10:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-25 11:30 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-25 14:07 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
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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