Re: IXP_NPE Driver Inclusion proposal

Read all the way to the end :)

Alternative Strategy for Microcode Loading

Apex can be used as a second stage bootloader by SlugOS, which initialises the NPEs. Then if the NPEs are not reset, there is a possibility that SlugOS (and Debian?) will not need to load the microcode again.

We haven't yet committed to using Apex as a second stage bootloader for SlugOS, though it seems a very good option.

Mike

On 11 Sep 2006, at 17:24, Marc Singer wrote:

Stage 2

Due to the requirement for microcode loading, userspace will need to be load the new driver, with the firmware loaded via hotplug.

I'm pretty sure that this is not the case.  Please get a confirmation

on it.  I asked about this some time ago and was told that once the

firmware is loaded, it doesn't need to be loaded again.  In other

words, we can depend on the boot loader to handle firmware loading.

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