Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:54:17 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Seb <sebastien.b@swissinfo.org> Subject: Re: Accessing filesystem from a KLD Message-ID: <200506252154.18242.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200506251203.13569.sebastien.b@swissinfo.org> References: <200506251203.13569.sebastien.b@swissinfo.org>
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--nextPart1279585.YzMc3188s8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:33, Seb wrote: > How can I access the filesystem from a kernel module ? > In fact, I want my device driver to retreive a firmware image stored on t= he > filesystem (instead of putting the firmware data in a static array at > compile-time) for memory usage and legal concerns. Blocking calls are OK. > I have searched the manpages and the web, but I haven't found anything > relevant. if_ndis does this (well ndis) to load firmware images from the file system = for=20 drivers. I wonder if it would make sense to generalise it - the ndis code covers thi= ngs=20 like building the firmware image into the kernel for cases where you are NF= S=20 mounting your disks (for example). =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 --nextPart1279585.YzMc3188s8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvUzy5ZPcIHs/zowRAoFbAJ4smOYx7gD5FJHeolLQLh6wecYsWwCfR4Zu w/Z73/sQhDPlsjVqJpP9bA0= =fc87 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1279585.YzMc3188s8--
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