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Date:      Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:10:08 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        yb@bashibuzuk.net
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New wireless drivers committed
Message-ID:  <20050420.141008.39176773.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050420200351.GV76080@bashibuzuk.net>
References:  <000b01c545dc$5dbf0a90$0300a8c0@COMETE> <20050420200351.GV76080@bashibuzuk.net>

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>    If I may ask: is the firmware not 'autoloaded' on OpenBSD by the
>    driver itself ? If so, what's wrong with this approach ?

Nothing, per se, is wrong with the approach.  It is a matter of
actually doing it.  There may also be some problems with existing
drivers that use their own ad-hoc methods at boot time before / is
mounted being able to find their firmware if a naive conversion were
done...

Warner



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