On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:56:17PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > You're describing PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD. The text Zach quoted is from > > STANDALONE, which is something else completely. That allows us to not > > build drivers that pull in things from /etc and the like during compile. > > (Whoever thought that was a good idea?) > > > Is DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE really still required? > ALL other drivers work without such an option. The other DVB drivers that need firmware load it when the device is opened or used (ie. a channel is tuned). At least for the ones I'm familiar with. If they are compiled directly into the kernel, they can still use FW_LOADER since the loading won't happen until utill well after booting is done. For AV7110, it looks like the firmware loading is done when the driver is first initialized. If AV7110 is compiled into the kernel, FW_LOADER can not be used. The filesystem with the firmware won't be mounted yet. So AV7110 has an option to compile a firmware file into the driver. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
