> On Nov 2, 2017, at 09:53, Adrian Chadd <adrian.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > uuuuugh okay > > So it's a chicken/egg problem. > > You can't finish the device probe/attach until the firmware loads. > > For iwn, you can read the chipset abilities and mac address from > EPROM/flash on the chip without the firmware being loaded, so you can > complete probe/attach before the root filesystem is mounted. > > For iwm, you have to load the firmware before you can read the chipset > abilities and MAC address so you can't complete probe/attach until > AFTER the root filesystem is mounted. > > If someone wants to go add all of that support in to have probe/attach > deferred until after rootfs is available then please do so. Or, just > support the firmware being 100% compiled in- but when I tried this the > last time I ran out of some firmware arena size preventing other > firmware for other chipsets from being loaded. > > Otherwise this is the current hack. :)
It’s ok (better than nothing)! Could you please write up bugs with your findings? Thanks so much! -Ngie _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
