Re: Firmware during bootup

[Denis Kuzmenko]

On 11/21/2011 05:39 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:28:18AM +0900, anish kumar wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I have a hardware(Noise processing chip) for which I am 
>> writing the driver.Is it a good idea to download the 
>> firmware in probe function by spawing kthread?I can't download
>> the firmware using request_firmware api as this hardware
>> is required during bootup for boot-up sound and request_firmware
>> is out of question because of no support in user-space.
>>
>> Am i missing something?I am bit concerned about boot-up time
>> as well.
> 
> You could build it into the kernel, see CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE Kconfig
> help for this.
> 

You can also put it into intramfs and use usual request_firmware call.

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Best regards, Denis Kuzmenko.
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