Re: How to read a file from a device driver?

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 23:59:28 -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
> > I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download
> > code *into* my device from some binary system files.  There is no
> > "user space" or user process, for that matter, to deal with at this
> > point. I just want to (at this step) open a file(s) directly from my
> > device driver, read the file(s), and download the relevant parts to my
> > device.
> 
> There isn't really any clean way of doing this so most drivers that need
> to load firmware usually compile them in.  :/

True enough.  The Alteon Tigon driver (sys/pci/if_ti.c) decides which one
of its firmware images (sys/pci/{ti_fw,ti_fw2}.h) based on the chip
revision.

So that's one possible example to look at.

Ken
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