New wireless drivers committed

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Apr 20 13:12:44 PDT 2005


>    If I may ask: is the firmware not 'autoloaded' on OpenBSD by the
>    driver itself ? If so, what's wrong with this approach ?

Nothing, per se, is wrong with the approach.  It is a matter of
actually doing it.  There may also be some problems with existing
drivers that use their own ad-hoc methods at boot time before / is
mounted being able to find their firmware if a naive conversion were
done...

Warner


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