| To: | JinuM <jinum@esntechnologies.co.in> |
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| Subject: | Re: open file in kernel mode |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
| Date: | Fri, 9 May 2003 17:06:12 +0200 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
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| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:24:25AM +0530, JinuM wrote: > I am trying to write a firmware loader driver. Instead of reading the > firmware as a buffer(predefined array) we would like to read the firmware > from a file (say /root/firmware). Do we have some function which reads the > file contents in kernel mode. This one seems a candidate for an faq ... Provide some special file in /dev/ and use a small user application to install the firmware by writing it into that file. Ralf |
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