RFC: New firmware ports for ipw(4) and iwi(4)

[Florent Thoumie]

On Mar 16, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:

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> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> If your iwi(4) driver depends on firmware(9) then you don't need
>> iwi-firmware anymore. Check the output of kldstat -v.
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> There is no iwi_bss there.
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>>> Nothing changed. A firmware does not load with the same diagnostic.
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>>> I have CURRENT a day or two old.
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>> An error message would help :-)
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> I'm not sure:
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> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi-bss
> iwi0: could not load firmware image 'iwi-bss'
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> The lines repeated for four times.
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> But I can 'kldload iwi_bss' after booting. But it's  does not helps.

I have the same bug, I think ipw(4) and iwi(4) should try to load  
{ipw,iwi}_{bss,ibss,monitor}_fw, not just {ipw,iwi}_ 
{bss,ibss,monitor}, or subr_firmware should add "_fw" itself  
automatically.


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Florent Thoumie
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