<div dir="ltr">Hi Jeshwanth,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jeshwanth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeshkumar555@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeshkumar555@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello List,<br><br>I came to know that, linux loads firmware for my dma everytime it boots.<br>But I don't understand, why it is required to load everytime it boots, don't dma holds which is loaded previously.<br>
</blockquote><div>Might be because it is loaded in to some volatile memory like DDR, which does not persist during reboots.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Arun</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
AFAIK, firmware is a program which runs in devices.<br><br>Please correct me if I am wrong. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>Thanks :)<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Jeshwanth<br><br>Sent from my HTC<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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