[Bug 290812] config: Error: device "iwx" is unknown

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290812

Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> ---
I would think this is a documentation error in the man page based on iwm or
OpenBSD?


I strongly believe anything which we do not need to boot a system to multi-user
(and you cannot netboot over wifi for us) should be auto-loaded as a module and
not be part of the kernel anymore.

There are two exceptions: (a) people who want a monolithic kernel and (b)
people setting security sysctls that you cannot load modules anymore.

Maybe we should make it possible to add it to the kernel but not advertise it
and not add it to any GENERIC or NOTES?  I wonder if loading firmware in that
case would even work (probably would need to be pre-loaded as well again from
loader)?


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278175
[Bug 278175] Intel native driver meta-bug (iwi, iwn, iwm, iwx)
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