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From: Denis Kuzmenko <linux@solonet.org.ua>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Firmware during bootup
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:01:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECA91FE.7010200@solonet.org.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111121153947.GA8102@x1.osrc.amd.com>

On 11/21/2011 05:39 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:28:18AM +0900, anish kumar wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I have a hardware(Noise processing chip) for which I am 
>> writing the driver.Is it a good idea to download the 
>> firmware in probe function by spawing kthread?I can't download
>> the firmware using request_firmware api as this hardware
>> is required during bootup for boot-up sound and request_firmware
>> is out of question because of no support in user-space.
>>
>> Am i missing something?I am bit concerned about boot-up time
>> as well.
> 
> You could build it into the kernel, see CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE Kconfig
> help for this.
> 

You can also put it into intramfs and use usual request_firmware call.

-- 
Best regards, Denis Kuzmenko.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17 15:07 [PATCH] arm/tegra: convert tegra20 to GIC devicetree binding Peter De Schrijver
2011-11-17 15:44 ` Rob Herring
2011-11-17 15:54   ` Peter De Schrijver
     [not found]     ` <CACxGe6ub2QBO0ZLwNdSvMxP1U087pqL-qL+dfWAbn-08gBQyvg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-17 17:15       ` Rob Herring
2011-11-17 20:41         ` Grant Likely
2011-11-17 18:51 ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-18 12:03   ` Peter De Schrijver
2011-11-18 12:03   ` Peter De Schrijver
2011-11-18 16:25     ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-21 12:22       ` Peter De Schrijver
2011-11-21 15:28         ` Firmware during bootup anish kumar
2011-11-21 15:39           ` Borislav Petkov
2011-11-21 18:01             ` Denis Kuzmenko [this message]
2011-11-21 17:20         ` [PATCH] arm/tegra: convert tegra20 to GIC devicetree binding Stephen Warren
2011-11-23  5:00           ` Peter De Schrijver
2011-11-23 17:25             ` Stephen Warren

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