Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:20:28 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> Cc: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot/firmware/ and /boot/modules/ (was: firmware modules) Message-ID: <53DF554A-7356-4C37-9850-1FEC065A8799@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20250330121806.23ee9741@dismail.de> References: <4432C294-6ADC-4403-8047-03D1D1A34957@yahoo.com> <f3820268-5e0c-4328-b407-9e4e398a595d@gmail.com> <20250330121806.23ee9741@dismail.de>
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On Mar 30, 2025, at 09:18, LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 06:02:37 +0000 > Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 20/03/2025 18:40, Mark Millard wrote: >>> … It looks to me like some things involve loadable kernel modules >>> that add code to into the kernel and some do not involve such. >>> Those that do not are probably just loaded into a device that is >>> using the material via the FreeBSD kernel. Which type of file looks >>> to determine /boot/firmware/ vs. /boot/modules/ for where the files >>> are put. >>> >>> Also, … >> /boot/firmware/ loadable binary firmware kernel modules >> >> /boot/modules/ third-party loadable kernel modules, such as >> those installed with pkg(8) or from ports(7) >> >> hier(7) >> <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-current>; >> >> > > My question is why binary pkg from FreeBSD repository install > gpu-firmware-amd-kmod in /boot/modules/ > and > wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod in /boot/modules/ > > but wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod from kmods repository install in > /boot/firmware/ > > Why is not the same? > Quoting /usr/ports/net/wifi-firmware-kmod/Makefile.inc : .if (${OSVERSION} >= 1500014) || (${OSVERSION} < 1500000 && ${OSVERSION} >= 1402000) # src.git main 479905a1ed26c54ef29cdff65cf25f7feade654b (stable/14 2ca7b03d6275) # allows direct loading of firmware files. For anything before that we still need # to create kernel modules. We need to write a PLIST file so we can then simply use # COPYTREE_SHARE with adjusted permissions to copy the files over. BOOTFWDIR?= /boot/firmware _SHAREMODE= 0444 NO_BUILD= yes .else MAKE_ENV+= FWSRCDIR=${WRKSRC}/fw .endif === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.comhome | help
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