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Message-Id: <1211555516.28967.30.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:11:56 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aoliva@...hat.com, Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@...l.com>, kay.sievers@...y.org, Haroldo Gamal <gamal@...ernex.com.br>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:56 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be > > used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd. > > This allows them to work in a static kernel. > > This makes a lot of sense to me - its small, clean and while I don't > think its relevant to the PC world it has real clear advantages to the > embedded space. > > For the embedded case isn't either compressing the firmware or not doing > the vmalloc/copy worth the effort however ? For avoiding the vmalloc/copy see my earlier response. Adding compression would be cute; I did think about that but figured it could wait for later (actually I think at the time I meant "later" to be today too, but then I forgot :) -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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