Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2006 19:21 schrieb Matthieu CASTET:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:44:09 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Am Dienstag, 7. November 2006 11:04 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> >> As I don't have much experience with firmware loading, I would like to ask
> >> other developers for their opinion. What should take care of loading the
> >> firmware ? The device driver (possibly using the firmware loading kernel
> >> API), or the userspace utility ? Remember that the webcam is really a
> >> different device after firmware loading.
> >
> > Use fxload. Keeping your driver as simple as possible is a good reason.
> >
> May be, but fxload doesn't seem really maintained/used anymore.
> Also the fact that lot's of kernel driver use their own code, show the
> small interrest in fxload.
>
> Maybe doing a swall kernel helper like in bsd for ez-usb firmware loading
> should be more sucessfull.
These devices are not as well behaved as your device. If the id does
not change you are better off with kernel support, but you don't have
that issue.
Regards
Oliver
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