Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20081114215402.GB10928%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:44:45PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Why not save it in ram only on and during suspend? Is there an ordering
>> issue again because the disk might have already been suspended? Should
>> we add a "prepare to suspend" pass to avoid all the ordering issues?
>
>What do we want to optimise for? Seriously, wpi is using the same
>approach to wifi as ~every other device does. Keep the firmware in
>memory for whenever you will need it.
>
>Note that this is not only resume time, but it will load the firmware
>whenever if_init is called. If you really worry about the memory usage,
>the static bus dma allocation should be eliminated first. That is larger
>than the size of the firmware. But I don't think worrying about the
>150KB image is  justified.

It is still 13% of the memory on a 2GB machine.

christos