Re: "don't know how to make /usr/main-src/sys/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-3160-17.fw.uu. Stop"

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:24:31 UTC
On Jan 25, 2025, at 02:10, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Am 25.01.25 um 10:54 schrieb Mark Millard:
>> Unfortunately, for now my reporting is based on my personal build environment,
>> not on anofficial FreeBSD build.
>> Context doing the building:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> probably an issue due to commit af0a81b6470 from 2024-12-12:
> 
> commit af0a81b6470aba4af4a24ae9804053722846ded4
> Author: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
> Date:   Thu Dec 12 17:13:58 2024 +0100
> 
>    iwm: Stop shipping firmware as kernel module
> 
>    Since we can load raw firmware start shipping them as is.
>    This also remove the uuencode format that don't add any value and garbage
>    collect old firmwares version.
>    For pkgbase users they are now in the FreeBSD-firmware-iwm package.
> 
>    Sponsored by:   Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG
> 
> Maybe your sources are out of sync with regard to that commit?

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/blame/sys/conf/files shows the lines that
I quoted that indicate dependencies on various *.fw.uu files.

It is true that a pre 2024-Dec-12 installation is attempting to
build what I reported: 2025-01-25 00:07:01 +0000 ( i.e., n275030
46a9fb7287f41eedf321d81a68a826f231d11bfe ). I had not updated
at all between those times and was finally trying to update.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com