Re: git: cf94672363d6 - main - rtw88/rtw89: remove local firmware.

On 9/6/23 12:06 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> On 9/5/23 2:16 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>> The branch main has been updated by bz:
>>>
>>> URL:
>>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=cf94672363d6638b7268c05b4628b62bbfc8dbe5
>>>
>>> commit cf94672363d6638b7268c05b4628b62bbfc8dbe5
>>> Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
>>> AuthorDate: 2023-06-08 21:35:09 +0000
>>> Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
>>> CommitDate: 2023-09-05 21:13:18 +0000
>>>
>>>       rtw88/rtw89: remove local firmware.
>>>            Remove firmware from src/ in favor of the ports/packages and
>>> fwget(8).
>>>       This will allow us to shrink the size of src (and installed modules).
>>>       Update the rtw88 man page to reflect the change.
>>
>> How does this interfact with doing an install to a machine over one of these
>> interfaces?
> 
> That's nothing we support.  At least we do not support netboot over wifi
> currently, so you'll always need another install media.
> 
> How's the "bootstrapping" going to work if wireless is the only network
> option?

To be clear, I was discussing the case you use a USB memstick, but fetch
the base system and packages over the network.  Or at least you need to
install pkg over the network, but you need pkg to install the firmware
so you can bring up the network which you did address, though it seems
something we plan to fix in the future so won't be in 14.0?

-- 
John Baldwin