Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: New Dell BIOS update driver

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:05 -0500, Abhay Salunke wrote:
> The dell_rbu driver is required for updating BIOS on DELL servers and client
> systems. The driver lets a user application download the BIOS image in to
> contiguous physical memory pages; the driver exposes the memory via sysfs
> filesystem. The update mechanism basically has two approcahes; one by
> allocating contiguous physical memory and the second approach is by allocating
> small chunks of contiguous physical memory.
> 
> The patch file is attached to this mail.

I wonder if this wouldn't be able to use the request_firmware()
interface instead... I mean, it would simplify the sysfs code a lot I
suspect. 

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