On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:31:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:30:25 +0200
>
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:21:50PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: "Michael Chan" <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:51 -0700
> > >
> > > > The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often
> > > > requires new firmware to work correctly. Splitting them up makes things
> > > > difficult for the user.
> > > >
> > > > The firmware in tg3 is a lot more mature and I don't expect it to
> > > > change. I think tg3 is better suited for using request_firmware().
> > >
> > > Like I said, I think neither should change and the driver should
> > > be fully functional when built statically into the kernel.
> >
> > Michael, doesn't a functional-yet-suboptimal firmware exist ? I mean,
> > just the same principle as we all have kernels, boot CDs, statically
> > built tools, etc... which run everywhere. If you have such a beast,
> > maybe it would be a good start to have it in the kernel, and provide
> > the users with the ability to upgrade the firmware once the system
> > is able to do more complex things.
> >
> > Just a thought...
>
> So let's save 60K instead of 80K.
That's not for this reason I said this. Michael said the firmware needs
to be updated somewhat often. What I was wondering was if it was not
possible to stick to a stable one (and hopefully small) so that the
driver could require less frequent updates. Sorry if it's not the main
point of the discussion, but I grepped on this :-)
> I mean, the entire discussion is just plain silly :)
yes, possibly :-)
Cheers,
Willy
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