New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:47, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at icir.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:37:32PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >> I would suggest the driver loads the firmware from disk since you don't
> >> need to boot from your TV tuner card :)
>
> AFAIK we don't have such a facility. A disc controller (SCSI/RAID?) in the
> tree needs a firmware blob, ath needs a blob (but the license seems to be
> ok, so we can have it in the tree), the newly added WLAN drivers need a
> binary blob and some other pieces need a blob too. Having a general way of
> adding the blob would be better than reinventing the wheel.

There is how ndis does it at the moment - it could be genericized but it isn't 
really that complex at the moment anyway.

See NdisOpenFile() and friends.

> ---snip---
> PXE booting from cxa0:
>   Connecting to Channel 5... done.
>   Booting CSI at 0x0....
> ---snip---
>
> ;-)

FreeBSD TV! :)

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