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From: Warner Losh
> In message: <4375246E.3050303@savvis.net>
>             Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> writes:
> : also while i'm here where do we stick firmware files by default?
> 
> /usr/share seems most logical to me, but suffers from the 'can't load
> firmware until after /usr is mounted' issue.  For most firmware, this
> is a minor issue...

I put firmware in /boot/firmware/<drivername> in keeping with the concept
that the kernel and driver bits are all under /boot.  A firmware package is
really just a hardware-side driver, so why not keep it with the rest of the
drivers?

Just my 0.020 metric dollars.