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firmware loader: document kernel direct loading 

This patch adds description on recently introduced direct firmware
loading by Linus.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Ming Lei 2012-10-24 10:49:33 +08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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High level behavior (mixed):
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kernel(driver): calls request_firmware(&fw_entry, $FIRMWARE, device)
1), kernel(driver):
- calls request_firmware(&fw_entry, $FIRMWARE, device)
- kernel searchs the fimware image with name $FIRMWARE directly
in the below search path of root filesystem:
"/lib/firmware/updates/" UTS_RELEASE,
"/lib/firmware/updates",
"/lib/firmware/" UTS_RELEASE,
"/lib/firmware"
- If found, goto 7), else goto 2)
userspace:
2), userspace:
- /sys/class/firmware/xxx/{loading,data} appear.
- hotplug gets called with a firmware identifier in $FIRMWARE
and the usual hotplug environment.
- hotplug: echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/xxx/loading
kernel: Discard any previous partial load.
3), kernel: Discard any previous partial load.
userspace:
4), userspace:
- hotplug: cat appropriate_firmware_image > \
/sys/class/firmware/xxx/data
kernel: grows a buffer in PAGE_SIZE increments to hold the image as it
5), kernel: grows a buffer in PAGE_SIZE increments to hold the image as it
comes in.
userspace:
6), userspace:
- hotplug: echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/xxx/loading
kernel: request_firmware() returns and the driver has the firmware
7), kernel: request_firmware() returns and the driver has the firmware
image in fw_entry->{data,size}. If something went wrong
request_firmware() returns non-zero and fw_entry is set to
NULL.
kernel(driver): Driver code calls release_firmware(fw_entry) releasing
8), kernel(driver): Driver code calls release_firmware(fw_entry) releasing
the firmware image and any related resource.
High level behavior (driver code):