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. Another argument is to make kernel be able to bring up NICs without needing firmware images in initramfs/initrd/hard drive. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
