Bruce Perens wrote: > >A good hardware design would put this code in FLASH on the board.
Depends on what you mean by a "good hardware design". For example, a lot of the USB dongles becoming common would be significantly bigger and/or more expensive if they had to have sufficient space on-board for a complete firmware implementation. As cost and size can be _everything_ on these devices, downloading firmware each time they are started/connected can actually be a good design choice. >If you don't have a good hardware design, BLOBs belong in files, not >the driver. The 2.6 kernel boots up with at least initramfs >accessable to it, and later initrd, if it needs a BLOB it should load >it from there. Agreed on this bit. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...
