Re: userland firmware loader?

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 07/10/04

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    To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:38:36 +0200

    In message <20040709232355.GB1626@green.homeunix.org>, Brian Fundakowski Feldma
    n writes:

    >I'm writing a driver that uses a 100KB firmware file and could need to
    >read it again, after initialization, to reset the device (or to load
    >more). Since this device is primarily found in CardBus form, I think
    >it makes a lot of sense to be able to get the firmware file at any time
    >but without specific user intervention.
    >
    >Is this something devd should be doing?

    I would advocate a generic interface for retrieving firmware from userland. 

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