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> I don't see the purpose of having a firmware image permanently
> resident (especially given their sizes).  Getting the boot loader to
> directly load the firmware into the device seems a much nicer
> solution.  If this is impractical, treating the firmware as a kld and
> unloading it after downloading the firmware would seem the next best
> option.

There's an open PR on this one.




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