Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:08:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input Message-ID: <20050420190715.A89198@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4266B626.2000404@mac.com> References: <20050419225640.7B92816A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20050420104309.hqhvxfmu00cskwks@netchild.homeip.net> <20050420022128.B421@xorpc.icir.org><4266B626.2000404@mac.com>
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> 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/ And there's "load -t foo_type file" from loader. We use that for md images, compiled ACPI DSDTs, etc... -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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