On 2005.12.19 14:20:53 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
| 
| - Tries to read it all in at once (into a wired kernel buffer  
| allocated from kmem_map).  It would be better to allow a driver to  
| read in pieces at a time, potentially into pageable memory.

Is there any device driver in our tree that tries to load the firmware
in pieces at a time ? I know this could change in the future.

| 
| - It should be possible to set the directory search path via sysctl,  
| rather than hard-coding "/etc/firmware".

I agree, but that's easy to change as Christos said.

		-- Rui Paulo