[Prism54-devel] prism54-usb firmware loading

[Feyd]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:24:07 +0200
margitsw at t-online.de (Margit Schubert-While) wrote:

> 
> Interesting. fw_entry->data is definitely in kernel space. Only thing that 
> may affect
> things is that the firmware loader allocates this with "vmalloc" and not 
> "kmalloc".
> AFAIK that means that the allocated area is not necessarily contiguous.
> Feyd ?

I dont know the details, but the ubr buffer being kmalloced is probably
requirement of the usb core, as Sylvain Munaut had to do the same in his
webcam driver.

Feyd