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>
> The current firmware(9) mechanism might work for you. The QLogic FC/SCSI 
> cards in FreeBSD use that for loading firmware images to download to the 
> cards, albeit to just load and reset, to update flash.

"not to update flash" (locations in flash where to put firmware are not 
documented by Qlogic)