Re: loading a firmware image

[Maslan <maslanbsd@xxxxxxxxx>]

>     There are two ways to do it.  First you can just embed the firmware
>     in the driver itself.  Second you can have the driver use the API
>     in kern/kern_firmware.c to load the firmware.   Doing it the second
>     way only works once root has been mounted so automating it in the
>     driver would require creating a SYSINIT that runs after root has
>     mounted or loading the driver with kldload after the system has booted.
>
>                                         -Matt
>                                         Matthew Dillon
>                                         <dillon@backplane.com>

So i can't link the firmware image as kld module like in FreeBSD ?
also i think the first solution might cause licensing problems.
any example for the second way ?

Thanks

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