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| = Linux firmware_class enhancements = | = Linux firmware loader = |
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| This page documents progress on ongoing enhancements to the firmware_class, both ongoing development, theoretical issues, and desired bells/whistles. | This page documents progress on ongoing enhancements to the firmware loader, both ongoing development, theoretical issues, and desired bells/whistles. |
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| = Extensible firmware API = | = Onging development = |
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| Being written. | * to prevent races on suspend / resume we must complete support for filesystem freeze / suspend |
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| = Firmware signing = | = TODO = |
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| Being written. | Things which the maintainer or other developers can work on: |
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| = Firmware calls on init and probe = Asynchronous probe was added to help with delayed boots caused by use of fw API calls, and by the systemd timeout. There is still an issue present when fw APIs are used on init or probe: the kernel cannot be sure that /lib/firmware is ready. In particular when switching initramfs with pivot_root(), etc, etc. More documentation needs to be written... = Desired features = Add a hook to let drivers stale cache (or should the OS only do this and hide the symbol?) |
* make optional firmware easier to ignore |
Linux firmware loader
This page documents progress on ongoing enhancements to the firmware loader, both ongoing development, theoretical issues, and desired bells/whistles.
Contents
Onging development
- to prevent races on suspend / resume we must complete support for filesystem freeze / suspend
TODO
Things which the maintainer or other developers can work on:
- make optional firmware easier to ignore