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From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/34219: ubtbcmfw.c
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:24:07 +0100 (BST)

 The reason we can't use firmload(9) really is to do with timing - there is
 no realy way for the kernel to know when its safe to do so, and because
 the device detaches after you load the firmware (and comes back as
 something else) it would get complicated if we waited until the device was
 being activated before we loaded it.
 
 I have a bcmfw package (pending in pkgsrc-wip at the moment) that will
 push the firmware into a ugen device, so in a bit I will remove the
 ubtbcmfw(4) device and add something to ubt_match to make it ignore the
 vendor/product ID pair of the firmware-less version.
 
 iain