Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:38:36 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userland firmware loader? Message-ID: <1420.1089448716@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:23:56 EDT." <20040709232355.GB1626@green.homeunix.org>
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In message <20040709232355.GB1626@green.homeunix.org>, Brian Fundakowski Feldma n writes: >I'm writing a driver that uses a 100KB firmware file and could need to >read it again, after initialization, to reset the device (or to load >more). Since this device is primarily found in CardBus form, I think >it makes a lot of sense to be able to get the firmware file at any time >but without specific user intervention. > >Is this something devd should be doing? I would advocate a generic interface for retrieving firmware from userland. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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