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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:09:07 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <201903141709.x2EH97e7090941@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: emaste
Date: Thu Mar 14 17:09:07 2019
New Revision: 345138
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345138

Log:
  firmware(9): remove uuencoded example
  
  We can (should) just commit the binary files to the source tree.
  
  Reviewed by:	bz, imp, 0mp
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19581

Modified:
  head/share/man/man9/firmware.9

Modified: head/share/man/man9/firmware.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/firmware.9	Thu Mar 14 17:05:46 2019	(r345137)
+++ head/share/man/man9/firmware.9	Thu Mar 14 17:09:07 2019	(r345138)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd August 2, 2008
+.Dd March 14, 2019
 .Dt FIRMWARE 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -248,12 +248,11 @@ IxNpeMicrocode.fwo  optional npe_fw					\\
 			    -r -d -o ${.TARGET} IxNpeMicrocode.dat"	\\
         no-implicit-rule                                                \\
         clean           "IxNpeMicrocode.fwo"
-IxNpeMicrocode.dat                      optional npe_fw                 \\
-        dependency      ".PHONY"                                        \\
-        compile-with    "uudecode < $S/contrib/dev/npe/IxNpeMicrocode.dat.uu" \\
-        no-obj no-implicit-rule                                         \\
-        clean           "IxNpeMicrocode.dat"
 .Ed
+.Pp
+Firmware was previously committed to the source tree as uuencoded files,
+but this is no longer required; the binary firmware file should be committed
+to the tree as provided by the vendor.
 .Pp
 Note that generating the firmware modules in this way requires
 the availability of the following tools:



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