Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:05:58 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input Message-ID: <4266B626.2000404@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net> References: <20050419225640.7B92816A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20050420104309.hqhvxfmu00cskwks@netchild.homeip.net> <200504201837.40830.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050420022128.B421@xorpc.icir.org> <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> wrote: [ ... ] > AFAIK we don't have such a facility. A disc controller (SCSI/RAID?) in the > tree needs a firmware blob, ath needs a blob (but the license seems to be > ok, so we can have it in the tree), the newly added WLAN drivers need a > binary blob and some other pieces need a blob too. Having a general way of > adding the blob would be better than reinventing the wheel. Bruce Perens pointed me at an interface called request_firmware(), being adopted by Debian to deal with this issue: http://lwn.net/Articles/32997/ http://lwn.net/Articles/32671/ -- -Chuck
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