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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 2/3][BNX2]: Optimize firmware loading.
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:23:43 -0700

> [BNX2]: Optimize firmware loading.
> 
> This is a follow up to the patches from Denys Vlasenkos
> <vda.linux@googlemail.com> to further optimize firmware loading.
> 
> 1. In bnx2_init_cpus(), we allocate memory for decompression once
> and use it repeatedly instead of doing this for every firmware image.
> 
> 2. We eliminate the BSS and SBSS firmware sections in bnx2_fw*.h since
> these are always zeros.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>

Applied, thanks for following up on this Michael.