From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 20:06:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC39E16A4CF for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:06:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F45F43D31 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:06:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB185DA3; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:06:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75327-02; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C735C84; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:06:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4266B626.2000404@mac.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:05:58 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <20050419225640.7B92816A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20050420104309.hqhvxfmu00cskwks@netchild.homeip.net> <200504201837.40830.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050420022128.B421@xorpc.icir.org> <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050420131744.t092cv40dck804ww@netchild.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:06:35 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: [ ... ] > AFAIK we don't have such a facility. A disc controller (SCSI/RAID?) in the > tree needs a firmware blob, ath needs a blob (but the license seems to be > ok, so we can have it in the tree), the newly added WLAN drivers need a > binary blob and some other pieces need a blob too. Having a general way of > adding the blob would be better than reinventing the wheel. Bruce Perens pointed me at an interface called request_firmware(), being adopted by Debian to deal with this issue: http://lwn.net/Articles/32997/ http://lwn.net/Articles/32671/ -- -Chuck