> I've been told that it's possible to have the kernel pull the firmware
> off of an initrd (or was it initramfs, I keep confusing the two) without
> having any userspace, just put the right file in the right place
> (unfortunantly I've never gotten around to testing this) will this patch
> break this feature?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that the way this works is having
the initramfs become an "early userspace", a filesystem that is mounted,
well, earlier during boot, so that it is available before drivers begin
to initialise (earlier: as a rootfs_initcall, as opposed to at the end of
the boot process), but that in all respects behaves as a fully-fledged root
filesystem. In particular, firmware should be requested from userspace in
the standard way, and the patch should not break anything. I would test
this to be sure, but I have absolutely no experience preparing an initramfs.
Javier
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