Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2007 20:33, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, [email protected] wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:05:23 BST, Denys Vlasenko said:
I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
if patches will be accepted:
text data bss dec hex filename
17653 109968 240 127861 1f375 drivers/net/acenic.o
6628 120448 4 127080 1f068 drivers/net/dgrs.o
^^^^^^
Should this be redone to use the existing firmware loading framework to
load the firmware instead?
Not in every case.
For example, bnx2 maintainer says that driver and
firmware are closely tied for his driver. IOW: you upgrade kernel
and your NIC is not working anymore.
Firmware may come with a kernel. We have a "install modules", we can also
add "install firmware".
Install where? I boot my machine over NFS, and it has no hard drive.
Special cases already fail when using distro-linked targets like "make
install."
Jeff
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