On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:57, Rui Paulo wrote: > 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.
This still holds. Are you going to import the firmware interface from FreeBSD? -- Rui Paulo
