Re: git: 94e94d2dddfa - main - UPDATING: Add a notes for iwm(4) firmware and pkgbase users

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024, at 06:47, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by manu:
>
> URL: 
> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=94e94d2dddfa43aa0aa3ad8aa3ab6d72363e4bd0
>
> commit 94e94d2dddfa43aa0aa3ad8aa3ab6d72363e4bd0
> Author:     Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2024-12-16 09:46:05 +0000
> Commit:     Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2024-12-16 09:46:05 +0000
>
>     UPDATING: Add a notes for iwm(4) firmware and pkgbase users
>    
>     Sponsored by:   Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG
> ---
>  UPDATING | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
> index 2a67a65a92ed..4fef13073431 100644
> --- a/UPDATING
> +++ b/UPDATING
> @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
>  	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
>  	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
> 
> +20241216:
> +	The iwm(4) firmwares are no longer compiled as kernel modules but instead
> +	shipped as raw files. For pkgbase users if you use iwm(4) you will need
> +	to install the FreeBSD-firmware-iwm package.

Hi,

I upgraded my dev box today (pkgbase/weekly packages) and got a kernel panic.

Then I installed FreeBSD-firmware-iwm, but still got a panic.

To get it working again, I had to comment out these entries from the /boot/loader.conf:

if_iwm_load="YES"
iwm8265fw_load="YES"

Now it's booting; the device works, but I don't know how. =)

-- 
Danilo G. Baio