Jeff Goodenough wrote: > Please could someone clear up some confusion I have over terminology. To > me "firmware" is something that is loaded into a device's flash memory > and remains there even when powered down. From what I've been reading in > answers to my posts and in other posts, the Speedtouch contains > non-persistent RAM to which software is loaded each time it is > initialised. Is this the case? If so, then in my book, firmware is a > misnomer! (The term derives from something midway between software and > hardware). > Other projects call code that's loaded into hardware "firmware". For instance Ivtv, http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/firmware-upload.html The kernel hackers who came up with hotplug chose the name firmware to describe a binary file loaded into hardware in response to a hotplug event (linux/Documentation/firmware_class/README discusses some of the issues). If you disagree with the choice perhaps you should take it up on the kernel mailing list?
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