On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:33:33PM +0100, Frank Wille wrote: > 1. The firmware is large, with about 60k. Does anybody have experience > with using a compressed firmware image in the driver, which is uncompressed > on the fly, while uploading it to the chip? How would I do that? > (This would probably make sense for most firmware, so a common interface > in the kernel could be quite useful.)
Can't you use the approach e.g. of the wpi(4) driver and load the firmware image from the filesystem? Joerg