Subject: Re: Convenient use of firmload(9)
To: Arnaud Lacombe <arnaud.lacombe.1@ulaval.ca>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/18/2007 20:59:17
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:57:25PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>
> I understand that firmware used to configure SCSI device could not
> really be "externalized" from kernel[1], but could firmware for audio card
> (yds*), pci serial board (cz*), usb device (atu*) or even network card
> (bge*, bnx*, ti*) ?
Somehow, some of those network devices can pxeboot a kernel - even though
we need to download a massive file in order to use the device from within
the kernel....
David
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