On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:11, Joe Talbott wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to open a discussion regarding our firmware API. What are > people's thoughts on FreeBSD's firmware API? Is it worth the effort > to import FreeBSD's API, or are there not so many drivers using > loadable firmware? My personal feeling is that we should do whatever > we can to make porting drivers as easy as possible.
>From the point of view of wireless drivers, more and more will be using >firmware interfaces and you'll likely benefit from importing the firmware(9) >interface from FreeBSD. Since wireless drivers will need to be ported again >from FreeBSD due to the massive net80211 changes I have on my branch, a new >firmware interface will probably be needed. -- Rui Paulo
