Re: ipw(4) driver
I agree that the most convenient solution is the NDIS-like solution of
being able to embed the firmware data as part of the module build. Due
to the license restrictions that means that the module would have to
'dummy-out' if the firmware file is not present.
But it doesn't sound like all that big a problem to me... in fact it
would be fairly trivial to have the Makefile for the module check for
the existance of the firmware file in various standard places and
simply not build the module if the firmware file cannot be found,
or build a dummy module that simply reports that the firmware was not
available.
Another option which would work for post-boot KLD would be to have
the module itself open the firmware file and read it in. DragonFly
has convenient fp_*() functions to make this fairly trivial. Of
course, this doesn't work if the module is built-in to the kernel
compile but is that really a show stopper? I don't think it is.
Or a combination of the two... if the Makefile finds the firmware
data it is built into the module, if not then the module tries to
load it on startup (but then can only be kldloaded after boot).
-Matt
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