> Why not do what FreeBSD does and have the f/w be a kld that you can
> unload once you're done with it? It seems to me that this is a bit
> cleaner than an alternate mechanism.

Another nit: I'd expect several firmwares to come with a "redistribute 
unmodified copys only" license. How do you deal with that? Force the user
to convert them into a LKM-able format themselfes?

Martin