On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:59 PM, David Laight wrote:

> 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....

...because they have a small firmware image in the ROM of the card for  
that.

>
> 	David
>
> -- 
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk

-- thorpej