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DECLARE_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE deprecated alreadyDECLARE_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE deprecated alreadyPosted May 29, 2008 9:19 UTC (Thu) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063)Parent article: Using the firmware loader for static data I think I've decided to kill off DECLARE_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE. Instead, we're shifting the firmware blobs to ihex files in the firmware/ subdirectory. Having them standalone means that we can also have a 'make firmware_install' target which puts the same firmware files into /lib/firmware where udev can find them. With DECLARE_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE that wasn't feasible -- we could only build it in, and didn't easily have the option to have it loaded by userspace.
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DECLARE_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE deprecated already Posted May 29, 2008 21:49 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] I'd prefer to have filesystem data (if available) take precedence; or, at least, be able to tell the kernel not to load the builtin stuff. Just for sanity, so if the firmware gets corrupted or I want to try a new version a full new kernel isn't required.
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