Raj, Ashok wrote: > Hi > > There are some devices that need microcode files to be uploaded. We have > a similar situation with cpu microcode and we used kobj_open/kobj_read > in the kernel. > > Is it acceptable for device drivers to do the same? For e.g a wireless > nic driver that needs sort of the same functionality. Today we are > including the ucode in the driver that seems ugly. (not that they get > changed very often, but still....) > > I hear that this would be discouraged to use any other than the ddi > framework calls.
Hi Ashok, you should have a look into PSARC/2008/198 http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/198 James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
