> I've been told that it's possible to have the kernel pull the firmware > off of an initrd (or was it initramfs, I keep confusing the two) without > having any userspace, just put the right file in the right place > (unfortunantly I've never gotten around to testing this) will this patch > break this feature?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that the way this works is having the initramfs become an "early userspace", a filesystem that is mounted, well, earlier during boot, so that it is available before drivers begin to initialise (earlier: as a rootfs_initcall, as opposed to at the end of the boot process), but that in all respects behaves as a fully-fledged root filesystem. In particular, firmware should be requested from userspace in the standard way, and the patch should not break anything. I would test this to be sure, but I have absolutely no experience preparing an initramfs. Javier - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
