firmware loading

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <43A8EE23.3010202 at errno.com>, Sam Leffler writes:
>Florent Thoumie and I have been working on some generic support for 
>loading firmware using kld's.  You can find a proof of concept at:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/firmware.tgz
>
>It has code to manage firmware images and load them on demand by 
>requesting a kld through standard facilities.

Is the firmware kld unloaded again when no longer in use, or does it
stay in KVM once as long as the driver is active ?

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