linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 21:31:47 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	aoliva@...hat.com, Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@...l.com>,
	kay.sievers@...y.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into
 kernel	image

> That's fairly much the kind of thing I was expecting we might see, I'm
> not sure it's reasonable to suddenly declare that overwriting the
> firmware is forbidden. I'd done the version which avoided the extra
> vmalloc and copy, but I've just reverted it.

It saves us a lot of memory in several cases where the drivers hang onto
the firmware so I definitely think we should fix the folks assuming they
can widdle on the firmware. That doesn't look hard to do and could save
50K+ on many systems.

Alan
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