From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:47:17 -0700
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:49 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100
> >
> > > Do patches look ok to you?
> >
> > I'm travelling so I haven't
On Sep 24, 2007, at 13:32:23, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:37:52PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
But I compile net/* into bzImage. I like netbooting :)
Isn't it possible to netboot with an initramfs image? I am pretty
sure I have seen some systems do exactly that.
Yea
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:37:52PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> But I compile net/* into bzImage. I like netbooting :)
Isn't it possible to netboot with an initramfs image? I am pretty sure
I have seen some systems do exactly that.
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On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:49 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100
>
> > Do patches look ok to you?
>
> I'm travelling so I haven't looked closely yet :-)
>
> Michael can take a look and I'll try to do so as well
> tonight.
>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:48:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > According to an earlier thread, dgrs was never really maintained,
> > written for hardware that was never really distributed widely, and very
> > likely hasn't had users in years... if ever.
> >
> > If that picture is accurate (it's a
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
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'
> According to an earlier thread, dgrs was never really maintained,
> written for hardware that was never really distributed widely, and very
> likely hasn't had users in years... if ever.
>
> If that picture is accurate (it's a story I was told), then I am
> definitely queueing up a deletion p
On Friday 21 September 2007 21:13, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
> > if patches will be accepted:
> >
> >textdata bss dec hex filename
> > 17653 109968 240 127861
Alan Cox wrote:
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.
d
> 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.
dgrs sho
> Just change the makefiles to always install gzip'ed modules
> modutils knows how to unzip them on the fly.
But that leaves the uncompressed firmware blobs in .data that ends up
in unswappable kernel memory.
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Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
> if patches will be accepted:
>
>textdata bss dec hex filename
> 17653 109968 240 127861 1f375 drivers/net/acenic.o
>6628 120448 4 127080 1f06
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:
textdata bss dec hex
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:18:06 BST, Denys Vlasenko said:
> On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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
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:
> >
> >textdata bss dec hex filename
> > 17653 109968
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:
>
>textdata bss dec hex filename
> 17653 109968 240 127861 1f375 drivers/net/acenic.o
>6628 120448 4 127
On Friday 21 September 2007 18:49, David Miller wrote:
> From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100
>
> > Do patches look ok to you?
>
> I'm travelling so I haven't looked closely yet :-)
>
> Michael can take a look and I'll try to do so as well
> tonight.
From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100
> Do patches look ok to you?
I'm travelling so I haven't looked closely yet :-)
Michael can take a look and I'll try to do so as well
tonight.
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On Friday 21 September 2007 17:14, David Miller wrote:
> From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:01:24 +0100
>
> > Hi Jeff,
>
> BNX2 and TG3 patches goes through Michael Chan and myself,
> and I usually merge them in instead of Jeff.
Didn't know that, sorry.
Do patc
From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:01:24 +0100
> Hi Jeff,
BNX2 and TG3 patches goes through Michael Chan and myself,
and I usually merge them in instead of Jeff.
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Hi Jeff,
This patch modifies gzip unpacking code in bnx2 driver so that
it does not depend on bnx2 internals. I will move this code
out of the driver and into zlib in follow-on patch.
It can be useful in other drivers which need to store firmwares
or any other relatively big binary blobs - fonts,
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