Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267880AbUI1PFP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:05:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267804AbUI1PFO (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:05:14 -0400 Received: from 168.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.168]:27921 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267880AbUI1PFG (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:05:06 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: Dmitry Torokhov , "Zhu, Yi" Subject: Re: [OT] Re: suspend/resume support for driver requires an external firmware Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:04:57 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: , "Oliver Neukum" , "Patrick Mochel" References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F8403BD579D@pdsmsx403> <200409272214.15992.dtor_core@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <200409272214.15992.dtor_core@ameritech.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409281804.57226.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1412 Lines: 37 On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:14, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Monday 27 September 2004 09:28 pm, Zhu, Yi wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Where do you load your firmware from so that you can bring up > > > the network so you can mount everything via NFS in the first place? > > > > The firmware locates together w/ the driver in the initrd which could be > > either in the remote PXE server or the local diskettes. It should be > > also > > placed somewhere on the NFS root so that it can be picked up to > > memory during suspend. > > > > Nice try :) but if a card needs a firmware to operate you most likely will > not be able to access any network resources, including PXE. Unless I have firmware on the initrd ;) > Only some form > of local storage can contain kernel and firmware in this case and I would > think it will be awailable at resume time as well. initrd is typically destroyed after boot is done. > Anyway, since there are other kind of devices besides network cards that > have to be availabe before userspace comes up and a generic solution is > always better I think that this part of thread is turning into offtopic... yes -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/