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Date:      Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:28:43 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, damien.bergamini@free.fr, nate@root.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/iwi Makefile src/sys/dev/iwi if_iwi.c if_iwireg.h if_iwivar.h
Message-ID:  <20051121182843.GD4267@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <8664qmja7y.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <20051119165547.0A4BD16A43D@hub.freebsd.org> <00ca01c5ed4a$86b0e570$0300a8c0@COMETE> <20051119.144210.122123926.imp@bsdimp.com> <200511211015.27879.jhb@freebsd.org> <8664qmja7y.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Mon, 2005-Nov-21 16:23:45 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>...or keep the firmware image in memory after loading it the first
>time around.

This strikes me as a waste of wired memory - most firmware images
are non-trivial in size.  If we supported pageable kernel memory,
this might be more attractive - it would still use KVA but at least
something else could usefully utilise the RAM.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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