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Re: Catweasel driver



On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:33:33PM +0100, Frank Wille wrote:
> 1. The firmware is large, with about 60k. Does anybody have experience
> with using a compressed firmware image in the driver, which is uncompressed
> on the fly, while uploading it to the chip? How would I do that?
> (This would probably make sense for most firmware, so a common interface
> in the kernel could be quite useful.)

Can't you use the approach e.g. of the wpi(4) driver and load the
firmware image from the filesystem?

Joerg


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