Subject: Re: Where to put firmware?
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/23/2002 09:51:20
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:55:31PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> 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.
If I read that correctly it would involve rebuilting the lkm in
order to try a different f/w.
I have written enough downloaders (and downloaded s/w) to know
that that is a complete no-brainer....
David
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