[PATCH v3 2/5] powerpc/85xx/86xx: Add suspend/resume support

Anton Vorontsov avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Tue Sep 15 07:47:36 EST 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:45:10PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
[...]
> >You can't request the firmware in the qe driver's ->suspend()
> >routine necause the firmware may be on e.g. NFS filesystem or USB
> >stick (implies having QE Ethernet or QE USB fully functional).
> 
> Is there any way for software to read out the current firmware from
> the device, or is it write-only?

Hm, I didn't look into iram stuff that much, but seemingly I can
read it back and save. In the end, it's just a ram that we access
in a weird way... Let me try it.

Thanks,

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