From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: getarunks@gmail.com (Arun KS) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:27:12 +0530 Subject: Firmware Loading every boot? In-Reply-To: <52f8d445.c3b2440a.27ca.2b63@mx.google.com> References: <52f8d445.c3b2440a.27ca.2b63@mx.google.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hi Jeshwanth, On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jeshwanth wrote: > Hello List, > > I came to know that, linux loads firmware for my dma everytime it boots. > But I don't understand, why it is required to load everytime it boots, > don't dma holds which is loaded previously. > Might be because it is loaded in to some volatile memory like DDR, which does not persist during reboots. Thanks, Arun > AFAIK, firmware is a program which runs in devices. > > Please correct me if I am wrong. > Thanks :) > > Regards, > Jeshwanth > > Sent from my HTC > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140210/7f207f43/attachment.html