Question on busybox and loading firmware?

[Gustavo Zacarias]

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.
Regards.