From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: preferred way of fw loading
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:48:31 +0100
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On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:15, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> is preferred to have firmware in kernel binary (and go through array of chars)
> or userspace (and load it through standard kernel api)?

If you control the whole system, the ideal way is to have the system
firmware or boot loader come with the firmware blob and avoid worrying
about it in linux entirely. E.g. if you are using Open Firmware, you
can have the binary image as a property of the device in your device
tree, where Linux then goes looking for it.

	Arnd <><
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