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

[Florent Thoumie]

On Mar 16, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Florent Thoumie wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> There is no iwi_bss there.
>>
>>>
>>>> Nothing changed. A firmware does not load with the same diagnostic.
>>>>
>>>> I have CURRENT a day or two old.
>>>
>>> An error message would help :-)
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure:
>>
>> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi-bss
>> iwi0: could not load firmware image 'iwi-bss'
>>
>> The lines repeated for four times.
>>
>> 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.

Well, not true, the module name and the firmware name were a bit  
confusing for me. Not sure why it doesn't work. I'm investigating.

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Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer