[PATCH v2 5/9] dmaengine: st_fdma: Add xp70 firmware loading mechanism.

Peter Griffin peter.griffin at linaro.org
Tue Oct 13 03:53:44 PDT 2015


Hi Vinod,

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015, Vinod Koul wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:14:27PM +0100, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > This patch adds the code to load the xp70 fdma firmware
> > using the asynchronous request_firmware_nowait call
> > so as not to delay bootup of builtin code.
> 
> Okay we need to check here. Can the driver be built in,

Yes it can be built in.

> if so this is not
> the right usage. You should load the firmware on first open for this device
> 
> See https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/26/588

Ok, thanks for the link, I will see if it is possible to load the firmware after
the first open. If it is I will do this in the next version.

regards,

Peter.



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