Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

[Jeff Garzik]

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, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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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