libertas sdio on bf548 w/ uclinux

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 16:18:21 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 22:17 +0200, Julien Boibessot wrote:
> Dan Williams a écrit :
> >
> > That's all handled by udev these days on most systems, unfortunately I'm
> > not so up-to-date on the details of udev.  Might be best to ask around
> > the udev lists.  Do you have any other drivers in your kernel that use
> > request_firmware(), and do they work?
> >   
> On my ARM9 system, with a Buildroot made Rootfs (without udev), 
> following script is working to load helper firmware (save it as 
> /sbin/hotplug):
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ "$FIRMWARE" != "" ]; then
>         HOTPLUG_FW_DIR=/lib/firmware/
>         echo 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
>         cat $HOTPLUG_FW_DIR/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data
>         echo 0 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
> fi
> 
> 
> If it can help...

Most likely yes, since there are cases where you don't want the
complexity that udev drags along :)

Thanks,
Dan





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