Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:51:41 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "don't know how to make /usr/main-src/sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-3160-17.fw.uu. Stop" Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomNZ9dLE2XxYz9z_2AjGMDWBB0BVq%2BCr8MvvhxS=RJ0Kw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1B14894C-78E3-4696-9E4F-FBA97A356BF1@yahoo.com> References: <CD107BA5-1168-4A75-9323-9A4B7E90825E@yahoo.com> <978176f7-270c-4603-b80a-e29c3b1b4b73@FreeBSD.org> <4FC807EC-10DD-49FD-AACE-9026B4925923@yahoo.com> <1B14894C-78E3-4696-9E4F-FBA97A356BF1@yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi! So, there's no longer a build target for the firmware uuencoded files -> kernel module. Being able to build iwm in the kernel rather than a module is broken. Now, the real issue(s) are that iwm needs firmware to initialise, and the firmware needs to exist, and thus it needs access to the rootfs for firmware_get() to find the now binary files in /boot/firmware instead of the kernel module old way, and that whole pipeline is broken if it's loaded at boot time or included in the kernel directly. There isn't a nice way to defer the firmware load attempt until /after/ rootfs is up. -adrian [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><br></div><div>Hi!</div><div><br></div><div>So, there's no longer a build target for the firmware uuencoded files -> kernel module.</div><div><br></div><div>Being able to build iwm in the kernel rather than a module is broken.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, the real issue(s) are that iwm needs firmware to initialise, and the firmware needs to exist, and thus it needs access to the rootfs for firmware_get() to find the now binary files in /boot/firmware instead of the kernel module old way, and that whole pipeline is broken if it's loaded at boot time or included in the kernel directly. There isn't a nice way to defer the firmware load attempt until /after/ rootfs is up.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-adrian</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></div></div>help
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