Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:08:39 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_icir.org> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > 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.
>
> Bruce Perens pointed me at an interface called request_firmware(), being
> adopted by Debian to deal with this issue:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/32997/
> http://lwn.net/Articles/32671/

And there's "load -t foo_type file" from loader. We use that for md
images, compiled ACPI DSDTs, etc...

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