From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:24:54 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Wolfgang Denk Cc: Rune Torgersen , linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 8260 CPM DP ram free function Message-ID: <20040524152454.GO6763@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20040521192333.GI6763@smtp.west.cox.net> <20040524135041.AB280C109F@atlas.denx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20040524135041.AB280C109F@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:50:36PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <20040521192333.GI6763@smtp.west.cox.net> you wrote: > > > > First, when this has come up in the past, the first question is why is > > this useful, given that with the hardware and peripherals in question, > > loadable drivers aren't really useful (and don't shoot the messenger > > please). > > As has been discussed before, too, loadable drivers are very useful > during development; they can even be useful in production systems > when you need and easy way to update software updates in a running > system. I suppose once Dan's comments are addressed, since I thought he's been the biggest objector to all of the previous implementations (or, my memory is faulty, and every one of them just fell on the ground), we can push this out, at least for cpm2 stuff. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/