From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:04:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060828230452.GA4393@powerlinux.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156803102.3465.34.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:11:42PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> This is a reference implementation with the debian mkinitrd-tools
> package. It shows how to identify the firmware files necessary for
> drivers in the initrd and also includes a primitive system for loading
> them.
>
> I've tested this with the aic94xx driver using the new MODULE_FIRMWARE()
> tag. Initramfs should be much easier because it already includes most
> of the boot time loading; all it has to do is the piece identifying the
> firmware for the selected modules.
Notice that mkinitrd-tools is dead, and will probably be removed from etch.
mkinitramfs-tools and yaird are the two currently used tools.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-28 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 22:08 [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) James Bottomley
2006-08-28 22:11 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-28 23:04 ` Sven Luther [this message]
2006-08-28 23:50 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-29 0:35 ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-28 23:55 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-29 2:15 ` Oleg Verych
[not found] ` <20060829015103.GA28162@kroah.com>
[not found] ` <20060829031430.GA9820@flower.upol.cz>
2006-08-29 2:49 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 4:19 ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-29 15:46 ` David Lang
2006-08-29 18:32 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 19:04 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-29 20:13 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-29 20:42 ` David Lang
2006-08-29 20:52 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 5:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-30 17:52 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 18:13 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 18:20 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 19:15 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 19:34 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 20:57 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 21:11 ` David Lang
2006-08-31 1:16 ` Jim Crilly
2006-09-15 19:48 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-29 16:30 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-29 13:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-08-29 20:16 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 13:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] <6OXsW-4pW-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6Peat-82q-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6PgFh-53l-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6Ph8l-61I-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-08-29 22:10 ` Bodo Eggert
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-18 23:41 Jon Masters
2006-04-18 23:01 ` David Lang
2006-04-19 0:15 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-18 23:41 ` David Lang
2006-04-19 1:07 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-19 9:07 ` Duncan Sands
2006-04-19 12:41 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-19 15:32 ` Duncan Sands
2006-04-19 15:45 ` Jon Masters
2006-07-29 19:05 ` Jon Masters
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