Re: [PATCH] firmware: convert av7110 driver to request_firmware()

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2009/4/20 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:41:58 +0200> Román <roman.pena.perez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>> 2009/4/19 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:>> > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 13:40 -0700, VDR User wrote:>> >>>> >> To be absolutely clear; users compiling dvb drivers outside of the>> >> kernel should copy v4l-dvb/linux/firmware/av7110/bootcode.bin.ihex to>> >> /lib/firmware/av7110/bootcode.bin correct?>> >>> > Run 'objcopy -Iihex -Obinary bootcode.bin.ihex bootcode.bin' first, then>> > copy the resulting bootcode.bin file to /lib/firmware/av7110/>> >>>>> That doesn't seem very *obvious* to me, actually.>> If you see INSTALL file at v4l-dvb tree, you'll see:>> ...> Firmware rules:>> firmware        - Create the firmware files that are enclosed at the>                  tree.>                  Notice: Only a very few firmwares are currently here>> firmware_install- Install firmware files under /lib/firmware> ...>> So, all you would need to do to install firmwares with -hg is to run:>        make firmware_install>> Anyway, since firmware install is very fast, and in order to avoid such issues,> I've just committed a patch that will run firmware_install when you do a "make> install".>>>> Cheers,> Mauro>
I'm sorry, my fault. As I said, I never had the necessity to installany firmware.The patch sounds good, I don't need it myself, but thank you anyway.
Regards,Román
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