Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2008 18:53:33 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image |
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On 23-05-08 18:44, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:38:41PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:21:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>> Looks good. >>> But do we need the firmware after init? >>> In other owrds could it be inside a discard after init block? >> What is you can hotplug the device and hence need to initialize the same >> device type multiple times? Wouldn't keeping the firmware around be >> useful then? How about on suspend/resume, do you need to reload >> firmware in those cases? > > There are cases where we need it after init. > But if there are cases where we do not need it after init maybe > we should be able to save some memory there? > > Let us get it working as is - then we can add such features later.
If embedded is the main consumer I would consider this a fairly vital feature though.
Rene.
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