Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:37:32 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input Message-ID: <200504201837.40830.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050420104309.hqhvxfmu00cskwks@netchild.homeip.net> References: <20050419225640.7B92816A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20050420104309.hqhvxfmu00cskwks@netchild.homeip.net>
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--nextPart1774876.WsGjo0eTpa Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:13, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Any suggestions or comments on my mad scheme would be welcome. > > Can this be extended to also cover other binary blobs like firmware image= s, > so we just have one way to do it? I'm thinking about e.g. the just recent= ly > committed WLAN drivers or about cxm (WinTV PVR250 driver in > multimedia/pvr250). I would suggest the driver loads the firmware from disk since you don't nee= d=20 to boot from your TV tuner card :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1774876.WsGjo0eTpa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCZhvc5ZPcIHs/zowRAjsxAJ9EGzrqV/d6gIQ3yITBrFavXjq5uwCcDqMH vn8P1yWxsj1/UuJFpOdHydM= =WMxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1774876.WsGjo0eTpa--
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