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christos@tac.gw.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> In article <200501120859.37467.sverre@viewmark.com>,
> Sverre Froyen  <sverre@viewmark.com> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Now that Damien Bergamini's iwi driver is in the tree, it seems 
>>pertinent to consider the location of the iwictl program and the 
>>associated Intel firmware.  Obviously, the firmware needs to be loaded 
[...]
>>PS This likely applies to the ipw driver as well.
>
> I would prefer that we don't grow 1 ctl program per driver and come
> up with a generalized firmware loader infrastructure.

Framework that the kernel could load the drivers firmware, userland
program, or bootloader load a new module (just like kernel modules in
FreeBSD), or all of the three ?

Love


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