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Re: request_firmware()
I haven't seen before, but the driver from Ralink doesn't use
request_firmware(). I was looking only a the driver from
serialmonkey.com. It is just about to set some bits and then copy the
data. Will not be a problem, I hope :)
Tank's for help anyway Andrew!!
Antoine
2007/12/20, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:22:05PM +0100, Antoine Zen-Ruffinen wrote:
> > Hello list!
> >
> > Does a equivalent to the Linux function request_firmware() exist in
> > eCos ? Does some one know how to do this "manually" ?
>
> Nope. You do it all manually. How you do this will depend on your
> hardware. eg where does the firmware live? Is it hard coded into your
> image? Is if in a few blocks in flash, is it in a filesystem
> somewhere? Do you tftp it from a server?
>
> Are you porting a Linux driver? Be very careful about licensing....
>
> Andrew
>
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