Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:59:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to read a file from a device driver? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003172358410.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <38D3085D.37F31443@home.com>
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download > code *into* my device from some binary system files. There is no > "user space" or user process, for that matter, to deal with at this > point. I just want to (at this step) open a file(s) directly from my > device driver, read the file(s), and download the relevant parts to my > device. There isn't really any clean way of doing this so most drivers that need to load firmware usually compile them in. :/ -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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