Re: [OT] Re: suspend/resume support for driver requires anexternal firmware

[David Dillow]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 23:14, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 09:28 pm, Zhu, Yi wrote:
> > Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Where do you load your firmware from so that you can bring up
> > > the network so you can mount everything via NFS in the first place?
> > 
> > The firmware locates together w/ the driver in the initrd which could be
> > either in the remote PXE server or the local diskettes. It should be
> > also
> > placed somewhere on the NFS root so that it can be picked up to
> > memory during suspend.
> > 
> 
> Nice try :) but if a card needs a firmware to operate you most likely will
> not be able to access any network resources, including PXE. Only some form
> of local storage can contain kernel and firmware in this case and I would
> think it will be awailable at resume time as well.

The 3Com 3cr990 family also needs external firmware (currently built
into the kernel, but it's on my TODO list to move to the loader), but it
contains enough firmware support in its flash to do PXE.
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