Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

James Ketrenos <jketreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
> We've been looking into whether the initrd can have the firmware affixed
> to the end w/ some magic bytes to identify it.  If it works, enhancing
> the request_firmware to support both hotplug and an initrd approach may
> be reasonable.

That space is already used in common distributions for replacement DSDTs

I guess at some point we will need a file system in there, but - oops -
we already have one, dont we? :)

-Andi