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Message-ID: <1285764266.2283.10.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:44:26 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: dedekind1@...il.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 Wed, 2010-09-29 at 15:34 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > 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. RHEL 4 and 5 have it; the first RHEL 6 beta did not but this was changed at my request. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- 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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