From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752943Ab1KUPjx (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:39:53 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:41958 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751802Ab1KUPjw (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:39:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:39:47 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: anish kumar Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: Firmware during bootup Message-ID: <20111121153947.GA8102@x1.osrc.amd.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , anish kumar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org References: <1321542430-17971-1-git-send-email-pdeschrijver@nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF1740D74C1E@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <20111118120352.GZ19069@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF1740D74E63@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <20111121122212.GL19069@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> <1321889298.1760.8.camel@anish-Inspiron-N5050> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1321889298.1760.8.camel@anish-Inspiron-N5050> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:28:18AM +0900, anish kumar wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a hardware(Noise processing chip) for which I am > writing the driver.Is it a good idea to download the > firmware in probe function by spawing kthread?I can't download > the firmware using request_firmware api as this hardware > is required during bootup for boot-up sound and request_firmware > is out of question because of no support in user-space. > > Am i missing something?I am bit concerned about boot-up time > as well. You could build it into the kernel, see CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE Kconfig help for this. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris