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

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:14, 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.

Unless I have firmware on the initrd ;)

> 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.

initrd is typically destroyed after boot is done.

> Anyway, since there are other kind of devices besides network cards that
> have to be availabe before userspace comes up and a generic solution is
> always better I think that this part of thread is turning into offtopic...

yes
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vda

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