Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:18:11 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firmware loading Message-ID: <15635.1135181891@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:54:43 PST." <43A8EE23.3010202@errno.com>
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In message <43A8EE23.3010202@errno.com>, Sam Leffler writes: >Florent Thoumie and I have been working on some generic support for >loading firmware using kld's. You can find a proof of concept at: > >http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/firmware.tgz > >It has code to manage firmware images and load them on demand by >requesting a kld through standard facilities. Is the firmware kld unloaded again when no longer in use, or does it stay in KVM once as long as the driver is active ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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