Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

From: Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <"Ngie>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:29:31 -0700
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 10:26, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com> wrote:

…

> But I thought that all modern wireless interfaces and many others load blobs. Is the source for the firmware blob for iwn (which is in GENERIC)  available?

	There’s a piece that’s open sourced that a BSD developer has written, but there’s also a binary payload that we have no insight into.
Cheers,
-Ngie

$ file sys/contrib/dev/iwm/*.uu
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-3160-16.fw.uu:  uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-3160-17.fw.uu:  uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-3160-9.fw.uu:   empty
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7260-16.fw.uu:  uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7260-17.fw.uu:  uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7260-9.fw.uu:   empty
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7265-16.fw.uu:  uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7265-17.fw.uu:  uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7265-9.fw.uu:   empty
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7265D-17.fw.uu: uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-7265D-22.fw.uu: uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-8000C-16.fw.uu: uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-8000C-17.fw.uu: uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-8000C-22.fw.uu: uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text
sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-8265-22.fw.uu:  uuencoded or xxencoded, ASCII text

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