Re: download binary code into pci card

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:49:11 +0200


Hi,

> I m currently writting an linux driver for a multi modem PCI card
> I need to download a binary file into the card to drive an arm csm
> processor.
> So my question is :is it possible to access this file via my module
> driver and transfert it in the kernel space before downloading it
> trough PCI bus??

Yes, it's possible, but the preferred method is to have the firmware
linked with the driver as initdata which get thrown out after initialization.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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