[RFC] rc.d integration for the bluetooth subsystem

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:57:15PM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:51:03PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> >>In message: <4375246E.3050303 at savvis.net>
> >>           Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net> writes:
> >>: does anyone have any objections to the /etc/devd.conf patch located at
> >>: 
> >>: http://people.freebsd.org/~emax/devd.conf.diff.txt
> >>: 
> >>: this patch will add support for a usb bluetooth dongles to devd(8).
> >>
> >>That looks fine to me.
> 
> good. thanks for review. i have committed the patch.
> 
> >>: also while i'm here where do we stick firmware files by default?
> >>
> >>/usr/share seems most logical to me, but suffers from the 'can't load
> >>firmware until after /usr is mounted' issue.  For most firmware, this
> >>is a minor issue...
> >
> >It's also not an issue in practice for most installations since /usr is
> >local and gets mounted quite early.  It's only when /usr is NFS and not
> >part of / that you usually get into trouble.
> 
> let me just some more details. in this particular case i'm interested 
> where to put firmware files for bluetooth devices. in particular
> 
> 1) 3com bluetooth pccard v1
> 
> 2) broadcom bcm2033 chip based usb bluetooth devices (belkin, d-link, etc.)
> 
> in both cases firmware files are _not_ loadable modules. they are just 
> files in vendor specific format. tools are provided (bt3cfw(8) and 
> bcmfw(8)) to load firmware into device.
> 
> what i would like to do is to add a couple more sections into the 
> /etc/devd.conf to handle these devices. those sections can even be 
> commented out because we cannot include firmware into the distribution. 
> it is up to the user to find firmware and put it in the right place.
> 
> so, should i create /usr/share/firmware directory or just use 
> /usr/share? is it better to have common place for firmware files or have 
> each driver/tool define its own place?

Instead, I would suggest creating a port that installs the firmware
and a /usr/local/etc/devd/ script simliar to the iwi-firmware port.

-- Brooks

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