On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:47, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_icir.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:37:32PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > ... > > > >> I would suggest the driver loads the firmware from disk since you don't > >> need to boot from your TV tuner card :) > > 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. There is how ndis does it at the moment - it could be genericized but it isn't really that complex at the moment anyway. See NdisOpenFile() and friends. > ---snip--- > PXE booting from cxa0: > Connecting to Channel 5... done. > Booting CSI at 0x0.... > ---snip--- > > ;-) FreeBSD TV! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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