On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Matthew N. Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000317 21:22] wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
> > > I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download
> > > code *into* my device from some binary system files. There is no
> > > "user space" or user process, for that matter, to deal with at this
> > > point. I just want to (at this step) open a file(s) directly from my
> > > device driver, read the file(s), and download the relevant parts to my
> > > device.
> >
> > There isn't really any clean way of doing this so most drivers that need
> > to load firmware usually compile them in. :/
>
> Now that I think about it, with FreeBSD's ability to dynamically load
> and unload modules it would seem like using anything else would be
> pretty annoying unless there's something else we don't understand here.
I think if you combine the ability to load arbitrary chunks of data (from
within bootloader) as modules, with similar auto-loading as in the vfs
case, you'll have a good solution.
Andrzej Bialecki
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