From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: vda.linux@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:23:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070918.112337.74737433.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190141114.9540.216.camel@dell>
From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:45:14 -0700
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:23 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Do you have any plans to switch to request_firmware() interface,
> > which will allow you to avoid keeping firmware in unswappable kernel
> > memory and thus free ~80k?
>
> Matching the correct version of the firmware with the driver is the main
> issue.
>
> David, what's your opinion on this?
I don't like it because it means people have to setup full initrd's
in order to do network booting with such network cards.
But the days of my opinion mattering on that issue are long gone,
the momentum is just too greatly behind using request_firmware()
across the board, so there is no reason for bnx2 to be any different.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-09-18 18:45 ` bnx2 dirver's firmware images Michael Chan
2007-09-18 17:55 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-18 19:09 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-18 18:23 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-09-18 18:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-18 19:20 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 19:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-18 20:08 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 20:35 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-18 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-19 17:10 ` maximilian attems
2007-09-19 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-19 17:18 ` maximilian attems
2007-09-19 17:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-18 20:05 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-18 19:21 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 21:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-18 21:31 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 21:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-18 23:14 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-19 13:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-19 16:09 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 8:30 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-19 21:00 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-19 20:29 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-19 21:43 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-20 14:49 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-21 2:12 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-19 16:33 ` maximilian attems
2007-09-19 16:38 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 16:51 ` maximilian attems
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