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Subjectpreferred way of fw loading
Hello,

is preferred to have firmware in kernel binary (and go through array of chars)
or userspace (and load it through standard kernel api)?

For char sx driver in this case (I hope there is no later fw):
ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/specialix/sx_firmware_306c.tgz

Now it's 2 .c files used by loader through ioctl. After compilation it has:
text data bss dec hex filename
4 8416 2 8422 20e6 si2_z280.o
4 19484 2 19490 4c22 si3_t225.o

So convert it to binary (and load it through userspace) or simply #include it in
the sources? I hope the former is preferred?

thanks,
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