Re: New wireless drivers committed

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:10:08 -0600 (MDT) · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:32 UTC

>    If I may ask: is the firmware not 'autoloaded' on OpenBSD by the
>    driver itself ? If so, what's wrong with this approach ?

Nothing, per se, is wrong with the approach.  It is a matter of
actually doing it.  There may also be some problems with existing
drivers that use their own ad-hoc methods at boot time before / is
mounted being able to find their firmware if a naive conversion were
done...

Warner