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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) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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