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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:16:35 +0200
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
CC: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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        uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
        Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Make firmware drivers generally available
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Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Currently only x86, ia64 and blackfin architectures include
> drivers/firmware/Kconfig, as a result firmware drivers are only available on
> these platforms. This has not been a problem historically, because all of the
> firmware drivers were architecture specific.
> 
> But this has changed with the addition of the SigmaStudio firmware loader
> (commit e359dc24 "sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio"),
> which is used to parse and load firmware files for Analog Devices' SigmaDSP
> processors.

It looks as if sigma.c doesn't actually belong into drivers/firmware.
That directory is for code that lets the kernel access the firmware
of the platform that the kernel itself runs on.

The request_firmware() stuff is usually part of the actual driver that
needs it.


Regards,
Clemens
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