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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