The following reply was made to PR kern/32342; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32342: OpenBSD firmware loading framework
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:02:40 -0800

 On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Iain Hibbert wrote:
 
 > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Jason Thorpe wrote:
 > the firmware image (dev/microcode/cyclades-z/cyzfirm.h) is in one  
 > chunk
 > though. Wow thats a big chunk of firmware (does that get paged out?)
 
 But a given driver instance only needs a few parts of the image, and  
 needs to be able to seek around in that image it has section headers,  
 etc.).
 
 -- thorpej