Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> said:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 12:39:07PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > > If none of the above this an option, I'd vote for a non-ia32 specific
> > > name, so other CPUs with this option can reuse it. /dev/mcde? /dev/mud?
> > > /dev/cpumu?
>
> > The process is so architecture specific that this hardly makes sense.
> > For MIPS for example ``cat firmware > /dev/null'' is sufficient, there is
> > no stinking firmware :-)
>
> The _process_ may be, but not the idea of "odwnloading firmware somehow".
>
... right, and the process is almost certainly CPL 0 only, so it needs
to be in kernel space anyhow.
-hpa
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