On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_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_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Thu Apr 21 2005 - 00:08:40 UTC
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