Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:00:29 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input Message-ID: <200504202100.30427.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net> References: <20050419225640.7B92816A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20050420022128.B421@xorpc.icir.org> <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net>
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--nextPart1455262.jxsyn17kSc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:47, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:37:32PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > ... > > > >> I would suggest the driver loads the firmware from disk since you don't > >> need to boot from your TV tuner card :) > > AFAIK we don't have such a facility. A disc controller (SCSI/RAID?) in the > tree needs a firmware blob, ath needs a blob (but the license seems to be > ok, so we can have it in the tree), the newly added WLAN drivers need a > binary blob and some other pieces need a blob too. Having a general way of > adding the blob would be better than reinventing the wheel. There is how ndis does it at the moment - it could be genericized but it is= n't=20 really that complex at the moment anyway. See NdisOpenFile() and friends. > ---snip--- > PXE booting from cxa0: > Connecting to Channel 5... done. > Booting CSI at 0x0.... > ---snip--- > > ;-) =46reeBSD TV! :) =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 --nextPart1455262.jxsyn17kSc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCZj1W5ZPcIHs/zowRArsgAJ90s/gpvpNLDfETHte6U4j3a4QdrACeOtu1 380umrHatYmpgh0INv3Sgqo= =AlNA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1455262.jxsyn17kSc--
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