Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759527AbYGPJJx (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:09:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754201AbYGPJJp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:09:45 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:33816 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752437AbYGPJJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:09:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. From: Peter Zijlstra To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , david@lang.hm, Marcel Holtmann , David Woodhouse , Frans Pop , arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <487D660A.6090504@garzik.org> References: <1216150616.27455.377.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216151640.27242.90.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <20080716005133.GK8185@mit.edu> <20080716013619.GD17417@redhat.com> <487D660A.6090504@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:09:07 +0200 Message-Id: <1216199347.5232.37.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 22 On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 23:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > Whilst it would be great for unified development on the tools that > > create the early boot process, I think it's a non-starter due to the > > fact that you can't really do it without throwing out everything you > > already have today. The same reason imo, that hpa's klibc work hasn't > > gained mass-appeal from vendors. > > Quite true and IMO disappointing, because klibc would make great > infrastructure for rolling out things just like this. Indeed, for one i've been told it would enable cross compiling of initrds, without which I deem initrd useless junk - whoever still compiles their kernel on the machine it will run on? :-) -- 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/