New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Apr 20 02:07:58 PDT 2005


On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:13, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Any suggestions or comments on my mad scheme would be welcome.
>
> Can this be extended to also cover other binary blobs like firmware images,
> so we just have one way to do it? I'm thinking about e.g. the just recently
> committed WLAN drivers or about cxm (WinTV PVR250 driver in
> multimedia/pvr250).

I would suggest the driver loads the firmware from disk since you don't need 
to boot from your TV tuner card :)

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