Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:01:11 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, Damien Bergamini <damien@freebsd.org>, flz@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firmware loading Message-ID: <200512211501.22621.flz@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200512211453.03946.max@love2party.net> References: <43A8EE23.3010202@errno.com> <200512211453.03946.max@love2party.net>
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--nextPart1850579.GtnsyeTMZR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 21 December 2005 14:52, Max Laier wrote: > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 06:54, Sam Leffler wrote: > > Florent Thoumie and I have been working on some generic support for > > loading firmware using kld's. You can find a proof of concept at: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/firmware.tgz > > > > It has code to manage firmware images and load them on demand by > > requesting a kld through standard facilities. Firmware is packaged > > using a genfw program that's included. You can package one or more > > firmware images in a single kld. I've packaged the iwi firmware as a > > boot image in a single kld + kld's for each operating mode that have two > > firmware images. The tarball also includes modified versions of the iwi > > and ipw drivers to use the code. I tested iwi, Florent is working on > > ipw. > > > > If you're interested in this stuff feel free to pick it up; I've run out > > of time to work on it. There are some potential issues with holding > > locks over the linker calls and the genfw program could use some TLC and > > probably a new name (plus the man page needs to be completed). > > I am generally interested and will probably look at it between Christmas > and the New Year - unless Damien wants to look at it himself. The current > scheme of loading the firmware is disfunctional with a WITNESS enabled > kernel (too much "sleep while holding mutex") and needs to be fixed anywa= y. > > Is this work in perforce? Is Florent still actively working on it? I'm actively trying to get familiar with src/sys, which takes most of my=20 time. I won't be able to fix anything in a while though. I've been testing Sam's changes (since he has no ipw(4) hardware) and I've create new ipw/iwi-firmware ports that you will find in [1]. [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/firmware/ =2D-=20 =46lorent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org =46reeBSD Committer --nextPart1850579.GtnsyeTMZR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDqWAyMxEkbVFH3PQRAh5gAKCC6V2Wf/HZVh12F8IForZilgO9wACeKJkv wl3HoWGjDEk4tlJ79Ag90Vo= =1LJh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1850579.GtnsyeTMZR--
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