Re: Re: IXP_NPE Driver Functional on LE & BE in SlugOS HEAD

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Cannot the Ethernet driver ready it directly from flash?
> Otherwise I don't see much advantage of simply writing out
> /lib/firmware/<whatever> during the initial installation.

The ethernet driver is destined for the mainline kernel.  Something in
the mainline kernel can't read from nslu2-linux specific flash locations.

Even when we did this ourselves in our board code for the existing
driver, the answer *always* came back from upstream "you can do that
from userspace, so it doesn't get into the kernel".

Reading firmware from a file seems to be the way that most things are
going.  How the file gets there and is then fed to the driver is up to
userland to figure out.

-- Rod


 
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