From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 11:30:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD60116A4CE; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:30:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3BC43D1F; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:30:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3KBUV4I059490; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:00:31 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alexander Leidinger Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:00:29 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050419225640.7B92816A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20050420022128.B421@xorpc.icir.org> <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1455262.jxsyn17kSc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200504202100.30427.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Luigi Rizzo cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Bill Paul Subject: Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:30:39 -0000 --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 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--