On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:37:29 +0100, Michal Januszewski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:18:07AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

It should probably just use its own hotplug agent instead of calling
the helper directly.

I've just had a look at it, and it seems possible. From what I have seen
in the firmware_class.c code, it would require:
 - registering a class somewhere in the initializaton code
 - every time a request from fbcon is generated:
   - register the class device
   - create a timer
   - call kobject_hotplug() to send the event to userspace
   - unregister the device

framebuffer already has a class registered. check out /sys/class/grpahics.

You should be able to just call request_firmware and have it download
your image whenever you need it. It doesn't have to be firmware,
request_firmware will download anything.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com


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