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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] dma: imx-sdma: clarify firmare not found warning
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:57:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140121115706.GT15937@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140121125200.6b1e96bd@ipc1.ka-ro>

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:52:00PM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:59:22AM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> > > The file is automatically removed after the timeout has expired (or
> > > the frimware has been loaded).
> > > Thus you must check for it within the timeout period during boot.
> > 
> > ... which is impossible if imx-sdma is built into the kernel - it
> > expires while the initramfs has only just started running, giving a
> > very narrow window for userspace to load firmware.
> > 
> It works for me, but I'm not using initramfs.

You can take my email as a report of "it doesn't work for everyone."  The
*only* way I can get firmware to load is to build imx-sdma as a module.
Building it in is a hopeless case here.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20 10:07 [PATCH v2] dma: imx-sdma: clarify firmare not found warning Sascha Hauer
2014-01-20 11:28 ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-01-20 11:36   ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-01-20 12:38     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 11:59       ` Vinod Koul
2014-01-20 13:09         ` Sascha Hauer
2014-01-20 14:09       ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-01-20 15:11         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21  6:59           ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-01-21 11:01             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21 11:52               ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-01-21 11:57                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2014-01-21 13:36                   ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-01-21 14:10                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21  7:06     ` Sascha Hauer
2014-01-21  8:31       ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-25 12:28 ` Fabio Estevam
2014-11-12 11:13   ` Vinod Koul
2014-11-12 22:05     ` Fabio Estevam

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