RFC: New firmware ports for ipw(4) and iwi(4)

[Max Laier]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 21:10, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
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> > Florent Thoumie wrote:
> >> If your iwi(4) driver depends on firmware(9) then you don't need
> >> iwi-firmware anymore. Check the output of kldstat -v.
> >
> > There is no iwi_bss there.
> >
> >>> Nothing changed. A firmware does not load with the same diagnostic.
> >>>
> >>> I have CURRENT a day or two old.
> >>
> >> An error message would help :-)
> >
> > I'm not sure:
> >
> > firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi-bss
> > iwi0: could not load firmware image 'iwi-bss'
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this should really be "iwi_bss" not "iwi-bss", but I think it was fixed in 
CVS.  The driver from: 
http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/20060315.both.tgz should request 
the right name, please let me know if it doesn't.

> > The lines repeated for four times.
> >
> > But I can 'kldload iwi_bss' after booting. But it's  does not helps.
>
> I have the same bug, I think ipw(4) and iwi(4) should try to load
> {ipw,iwi}_{bss,ibss,monitor}_fw, not just {ipw,iwi}_
> {bss,ibss,monitor}, or subr_firmware should add "_fw" itself
> automatically.

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