Mike Silbersack wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nate Lawson wrote:
Right, but such an approach won't work for storage drivers like
isp(4). Couldn't you just generalize the approach used by ispfw(4)?
It uses the kld module approach to get the firmware into kernel memory.
--
Nate
For something like a network driver, preloading the firmware into a kld
is a waste of memory. The exception would be if you were to try
netbooting from a iwi card, but that seems unlikely to be a common problem.
Until someone does come up with the official "FreeBSD" way to load
firmware, let's stop kibitzing about this commit and let Damien get back
to work.
It's not a question of kibbitzing; there's been discussion about dealing
with this issue with a general mechanism and not sticking individual
solutions in drivers. Doing this would mean not having to answer the
immediate followup questions like "what about ipw".
Sam
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