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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
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Subject: firmware loading (was KLD - what's the idea)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9812030038560.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at "Dec 3, 1998 00:44:10 am"
To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:09:05 -0500 (EST)
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Matthew N. Dodd once stated:

=I was kind of wondering how to avoid compiling in 20 to 60 Kb of
=firmware image for support of RAM based TMS380 cards. In addition,
=some each particular card may have specific firmware it wants loaded.
=I'm looking for some way to load a really basic config file to let the
=driver know which image goes with which card.
=
=Doing this from userland isn't good as I can't do much with the card
=until the firmware is loaded.

May be the DSI modem model will give an idea? AFAIU, DSI-modem
option creates a new ioctl, which can later be used by a userland
program to load a firmware file into the board.

BTW: FreeBSD does not have such a program, although it is fairly
simple to write...

	-mi


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