On Dec 19,  2:20pm, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/32342: OpenBSD firmware loading framework

| I'm not sure I like this:
| 
| - Tries to read it all in at once (into a wired kernel buffer  
| allocated from kmem_map).  It would be better to allow a driver to  
| read in pieces at a time, potentially into pageable memory.

What would be the API for that? Using a callback mechanism?

| - It should be possible to set the directory search path via sysctl,  
| rather than hard-coding "/etc/firmware".

That should be simple enough to implement. I think that the idea of having
some standard way to load firmware is good instead of having each driver
provide ioctl enries...

christos