On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:26 -0800, raghu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the reply. But I was looking for accessing firmware file from
> kernel driver. We already have command line tool to flash our firmware, but
> with this approach end user has to flash the firmware again. Instead I was
> looking for Linux like support, where drivers have standard support to access
> firmware from /lib/firmware by calling some kernel interface. Basically it
> doesnot require any additional step for end user and also driver size will
> still be small as they do not include firmware in header file.
>
> Regards
> Raghu.
There is no standard facility for this, although I've contemplated such
a facility in the past. For now most drivers that have uploadable
firmware just compile the binary into the driver directly. Not elegant,
but it works.
- Garrett
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