[alsa-devel] Firmware during bootup

Hello Everyone,

I have a hardware(Noise processing chip) for which I am writing the driver.Is it a good idea to download the firmware in probe function by spawing kthread?I can't download the firmware using request_firmware api as this hardware is required during bootup for boot-up sound and request_firmware is out of question because of no support in user-space.

Am i missing something?I am bit concerned about boot-up time as well.

Please help me.