On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 07/06/2014 04:26 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> My build is finished and 3.16-rc2 appears to be working with loadable >>> modules... >>> >>> Looking at my trees I must have encountered this before and then >>> forgotten that I fixed it by copying the module into my shared rootfs >>> and making it loadable. >>> >>> So can you do a probe-defer and defer retrying the firmware load until >>> after rootwait finishes? >> >> I'm afraid it is not that easy, note that this is not a sunxi specific >> problem. It is probably best to discuss this with the upstream brcmfmac >> maintainers.
I have asked the question over on linux-arm-kernel. Seems to me like request-firmware should issue probe-defer until after rootwait completes. > > In the meantime, isn't the kernel capable of loading firmware from initramfs? > I mean, that is one of its functions, right? I have the problem solved. I was just misled by forgetting that I had previously copied the broadcom driver from linux-devel into my rootfs. Once I also copied in the driver from mainline everything started working. > > > ChenYu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "linux-sunxi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Jon Smirl [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
