From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH -net-next 2/4] firmware: convert acenic driver to request_firmware() -- without firmware data Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:10:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090104.161025.50402227.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1230635694.10603.20.camel@jaswinder.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jes@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org To: jaswinder@infradead.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41364 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751586AbZAEAKW (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:10:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1230635694.10603.20.camel@jaswinder.satnam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:44:54 +0530 > firmware: convert acenic driver to request_firmware() > > We store the firmware in its native big-endian form now, so the loop in > ace_copy() is modified to use be32_to_cpup() when writing it out. > > We can forget the BSS,SBSS sections of the firmware, since we were > clearing all the device's RAM anyway. And the text,rodata,data sections > can all be loaded as a single chunk since they're contiguous (give or > take a few dozen bytes in between). > > Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Applied.