New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input

[Alexander Leidinger]

Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at icir.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:37:32PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> ...
>> I would suggest the driver loads the firmware from disk since you don't need
>> to boot from your TV tuner card :)

AFAIK we don't have such a facility. A disc controller (SCSI/RAID?) in the
tree needs a firmware blob, ath needs a blob (but the license seems to be
ok, so we can have it in the tree), the newly added WLAN drivers need a
binary blob and some other pieces need a blob too. Having a general way of
adding the blob would be better than reinventing the wheel.

> why not ? it's a kind of a network device, after all... :)

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PXE booting from cxa0:
  Connecting to Channel 5... done.
  Booting CSI at 0x0....
---snip---

;-)

Bye,
Alexander.

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