netdev - Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

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Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:30 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, mchan@...adcom.com, vda.linux@...glemail.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:08:10PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:27:04 -0700
> 
> > Well, what I was referring to here, of course, was the initramfs
> > integrated in the kernel image, so it all comes out of the kernel build
> > tree and produces a single bootable image.  The fact that part of it
> > contains userspace code is in that way invisible.
> > 
> > That was kind of the point here, and the only reason for pushing klibc
> > into the kernel build tree at all.  Under the "distros use external
> > initrd anyway" school of thought, whatever libc used for that can be
> > external anyway.
> 
> Sounds good to me :)

Except there seems to be great resistance to include userland code in the
kernel as demonstrated at last KS. Or this is maybe just a single vocal
person and the topic were brought up late?

Anyway - if we again consider klibc I will do my best to make the
build stuff as smooth as possible.

	Sam
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