On Jan 26, 2025, at 20:51, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi! Hello. > So, there's no longer a build target for the firmware uuencoded files -> > kernel module. Yea. But there are the sys/conf/files dependency lines in main that still list .fw.uu files. That includes a reference related to the error I get in my context unless I avoid "device iwmfw" in the kernel configuration: /. . ./sys/conf/files: dependency "$S/contrib/dev/iwm/iwm-3160-17.fw.uu" \ It makes things look like the .fw.uu removal activity is still incomplete. > Being able to build iwm in the kernel rather than a module is broken. > > Now, the real issue(s) are that iwm needs firmware to initialise, and the > firmware needs to exist, and thus it needs access to the rootfs for > firmware_get() to find the now binary files in /boot/firmware instead of the > kernel module old way, and that whole pipeline is broken if it's loaded at > boot time or included in the kernel directly. There isn't a nice way to defer > the firmware load attempt until /after/ rootfs is up. > Yep. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
