Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:27:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to read a file from a device driver? Message-ID: <20000317212751.F14789@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003172358410.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from winter@jurai.net on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:59:28PM -0500 References: <38D3085D.37F31443@home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003172358410.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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* Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net> [000317 21:22] wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > > I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download > > code *into* my device from some binary system files. There is no > > "user space" or user process, for that matter, to deal with at this > > point. I just want to (at this step) open a file(s) directly from my > > device driver, read the file(s), and download the relevant parts to my > > device. > > There isn't really any clean way of doing this so most drivers that need > to load firmware usually compile them in. :/ Now that I think about it, with FreeBSD's ability to dynamically load and unload modules it would seem like using anything else would be pretty annoying unless there's something else we don't understand here. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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