Question on busybox and loading firmware?
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Mon Sep 22 14:27:35 UTC 2014
On 22 Sep 2014 at 10:32, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
Date sent: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:32:43 -0300
From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>,
busybox at busybox.net
Subject: Re: Question on busybox and loading firmware?
> On 09/22/2014 09:56 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > Was already able to find the firmware since it was included with the installation
> > of the fedora 20 on the notebook. Issue is that I placed the firmware files into the
> > /lib/firmware directory, but on booting from my project kernel it seems to try and
> > load firmware during the kernel loading before the ramdisk.lzma is loaded. The
> > kernel is built with the option to not include firmware, since I don't know what if
> > any firmware will be needed by end users. This seems to have worked with
> > bnx2 and bnx2x firmware that another end user needed.
> >
> > But the booting showed the messages before the ramdisk.lzma is
> > recognized, and then shows messages with =-12, and =-2. Didn't save the
> > output since this was a ram only load. Was thinking that mdev -s might cause
> > it to load firmware. Kernel contains most disk and ethernet devices included.
>
> Hi.
> Make the driver a module instead of built into the kernel.
> The driver might initialize before the kernel/userland has
> access/mounted a root filesystem and that's what happens.
Thanks for the reply. Problem is that iso has the option of select 7 different
kernels, so if I changed it to using moduals I would have to include them for
multiple kernels and also come up with a script to load the moduals. Right
now everything works by having the kernels handle the hardware.
> Regards.
>
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