Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:10:44 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, damien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: New firmware ports for ipw(4) and iwi(4) Message-ID: <67109E0C-7F70-480E-9B24-1E69010C5F42@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4419C0F9.8010004@FreeBSD.org> References: <1142511875.823.83.camel@mayday.esat.net> <4419ACC7.2010009@FreeBSD.org> <1142533990.823.122.camel@mayday.esat.net> <4419C0F9.8010004@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mar 16, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
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> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> If your iwi(4) driver depends on firmware(9) then you don't need
>> iwi-firmware anymore. Check the output of kldstat -v.
>
> There is no iwi_bss there.
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>>
>>> Nothing changed. A firmware does not load with the same diagnostic.
>>>
>>> I have CURRENT a day or two old.
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>> An error message would help :-)
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> I'm not sure:
>
> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi-bss
> iwi0: could not load firmware image 'iwi-bss'
>
> The lines repeated for four times.
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> But I can 'kldload iwi_bss' after booting. But it's does not helps.
I have the same bug, I think ipw(4) and iwi(4) should try to load
{ipw,iwi}_{bss,ibss,monitor}_fw, not just {ipw,iwi}_
{bss,ibss,monitor}, or subr_firmware should add "_fw" itself
automatically.
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Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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