Since we don't have all the WPA authentication stuff built into the kernel (we utilize wpa_supplicant in userland), there isn't any reasonable usecase for booting with a network filesystem as root over wlan.<div><div>But actually network boot over wlan without an initrd might even be impossible since we probably can't create the wlan0 interface during kernel boot at the moment.</div><div>NFS root over wlan is only supposed to work with a custom initrd.</div><div><br><div>All current wlan drivers except iwm, will only request their firmware when enabling the interface, so they should be fine waiting for userland to deliver the firmware during a regular boot.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Imre<br><br>On Friday, May 26, 2017, Jan Sucan <<a href="mailto:sucanjan@fit.cvut.cz">sucanjan@fit.cvut.cz</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 26.05.2017 08:25, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:<br>
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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Jan Sucan <<a>sucanjan@fit.cvut.cz</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hello sephe,<br>
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thank you for the question. I am thinking of keeping a part of the old<br>
functionality. Firmware for those devices could be compiled into the kernel<br>
(by default).<br>
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I think, this concerns only the isp driver for Qlogic based SCSI and<br>
FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters.<br>
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Could you please point me to other drivers, which will need the same<br>
treatment?<br>
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e.g. mxge(4).<br>
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I am not quite sure about other wlan drivers.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
sephe<br>
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Oh, I think I get the point now. :-) It will be able for firmware images to be compiled into the kernel.<br>
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Thanks<br>
jan<br>
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