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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:43:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: asm_pci.h,v  Holy cow!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004272043100.4298-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <00Apr28.093740est.115303@border.alcanet.com.au>

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> I don't see the purpose of having a firmware image permanently
> resident (especially given their sizes).  Getting the boot loader to
> directly load the firmware into the device seems a much nicer
> solution.  If this is impractical, treating the firmware as a kld and
> unloading it after downloading the firmware would seem the next best
> option.

There's an open PR on this one.




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