On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:40:29PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> firmload(9) does not work before the file-system the firmware is on is
> mounted. It even used to crash the kernel if used before root was mounted,
> but I discovered and fixed that last weekend.
> 
> Using it for audio is no problem - I intend to move an Amiga audio
> device to using firmload(9) soon.
> 
ok, in such case, when should the firmware be uploaded to the device ?
the first time we open /dev/audio ?

> Using it for network is a problem if the device in question is used to
> mount a filesystem (e.g. over NFS); 
could 802.11 device be used to mount NFS at boot-time (I guess not as
ral(4) already use firmload(9)) ?

thanks,

 - Arnaud