From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 20:12:43 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 DA46816A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:12:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6539F43D1D for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:12:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3KKA8Oc038838; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:10:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:10:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20050420.141008.39176773.imp@bsdimp.com> To: yb@bashibuzuk.net From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <20050420200351.GV76080@bashibuzuk.net> References: <000b01c545dc$5dbf0a90$0300a8c0@COMETE> <20050420200351.GV76080@bashibuzuk.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New wireless drivers committed 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 20:12:44 -0000 > If I may ask: is the firmware not 'autoloaded' on OpenBSD by the > driver itself ? If so, what's wrong with this approach ? Nothing, per se, is wrong with the approach. It is a matter of actually doing it. There may also be some problems with existing drivers that use their own ad-hoc methods at boot time before / is mounted being able to find their firmware if a naive conversion were done... Warner