Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261930AbVEKIu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 04:50:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261934AbVEKIuZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 04:50:25 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49066 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261930AbVEKItg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 04:49:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: New Dell BIOS update driver From: Arjan van de Ven To: Abhay Salunke Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , matt_domsch@dell.com In-Reply-To: <20050510220520.GA30741@littleblue.us.dell.com> References: <20050510220520.GA30741@littleblue.us.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:49:32 +0200 Message-Id: <1115801373.6029.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 3.7 (+++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (3.7 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 1.1 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] 2.5 RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK RBL: Sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:05 -0500, Abhay Salunke wrote: > The dell_rbu driver is required for updating BIOS on DELL servers and client > systems. The driver lets a user application download the BIOS image in to > contiguous physical memory pages; the driver exposes the memory via sysfs > filesystem. The update mechanism basically has two approcahes; one by > allocating contiguous physical memory and the second approach is by allocating > small chunks of contiguous physical memory. > > The patch file is attached to this mail. I wonder if this wouldn't be able to use the request_firmware() interface instead... I mean, it would simplify the sysfs code a lot I suspect. - 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/