From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware()
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:07:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806051207.50556.arekm@pld-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605.foo@pmac.infradead.org>
On Thursday 05 June 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Ignoring the set of 'make fw->data const' patches which have mostly
> been already posted and are fairly trivial, this is the current content
> of the firmware tree at git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git
>
> It starts by giving a way to build arbitrary firmware blobs into the
> kernel while letting request_firmware() find them there, and then sets
> about converting drivers to use request_firmware() instead of static
> data blobs, now that we can do that without forcing the users to
> actually satisfy the firmware requests from userspace.
Will there be a way for userspace to know what firmware file is needed by
which driver?
So for example geninitrd/mkinitrd will be able to put only required firmware
files into initrd/initramfs (without a need to maintain separate database
with driver <-> firmware file name mapping).
--
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-05 9:52 [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 12:52 ` [PATCH 01/18] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 12:58 ` [PATCH 02/18] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-26 22:01 ` [PATCH 04/18] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 8:01 ` [PATCH 03/18] firmware: Add 'firmware_install' make target David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 11:48 ` [PATCH 05/18] firmware: convert maestro3 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 12:07 ` [PATCH 06/18] firmware: convert ymfpci " David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 13:39 ` [PATCH 07/18] smctr: use request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 14:17 ` [PATCH 08/18] kaweth: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 16:50 ` [PATCH 09/18] ttusb-budget: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 10:57 ` [PATCH 10/18] ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 12:26 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-05-31 22:20 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 12:15 ` [PATCH 14/18] keyspan_pda: use request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 15:49 ` [PATCH 17/18] ti_usb_3410_5052: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 22:35 ` [PATCH 18/18] whiteheat: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-31 12:07 ` [PATCH 12/18] ihex: add ihex2fw tool for converting HEX files into firmware images David Woodhouse
2008-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH 11/18] ihex: request_ihex_firmware() function to load and validate firmware David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 10:07 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2008-06-05 10:09 ` [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 12:26 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-06-05 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-05 19:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-05 20:53 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 21:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 21:22 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 22:15 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 22:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 22:18 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-05 22:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31 22:45 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-06 9:15 ` Alan Cox
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