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Message-ID: <1285763658.2437.112.camel@localhost>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:34:18 +0300
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
sf-linux-drivers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Online firmware upgrade in non-embedded systems
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 18:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Currently the sfc network driver is optionally combined with an MTD
> driver (CONFIG_SFC_MTD) which exposes all upgradable firmware and
> configuration partitions in flash. This works nicely in kernels with
> MTD enabled, but since MTD is mainly used in embedded systems with
> on-board flash it is often disabled in distribution kernels and custom
> kernels alike. This leaves users of sfc unable to upgrade firmware
> without rebuilding the kernel or booting some other distribution. The
> lack of widespread MTD support is a regular cause of support requests.
At least Fedora does have MTD enabled. But I guess commercial
distributions like RHEL might have it disabled (but I did not check),
and I think I could guess the reason for this.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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