Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-11-02 Thread Ngie Cooper
> On Nov 2, 2017, at 09:53, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > ugh okay > > So it's a chicken/egg problem. > > You can't finish the device probe/attach until the firmware loads. > > For iwn, you can read the chipset abilities and mac address from > EPROM/flash on the chip without the firmware being

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-11-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
ugh okay So it's a chicken/egg problem. You can't finish the device probe/attach until the firmware loads. For iwn, you can read the chipset abilities and mac address from EPROM/flash on the chip without the firmware being loaded, so you can complete probe/attach before the root filesystem i

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-29 Thread yaneurabeya
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 11:01, Warner Losh wrote: ... > The blobs run on the actual card itself, not on the host. This is the > firmware for the wireless SoC that's on the card. We have allowed those in > the kernel since the very early days of the project when scsi controllers > like isp(4) d

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-29 Thread Warner Losh
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) < yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 29, 2017, at 10:26, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > … > > > But I thought that all modern wireless interfaces and many others load > blobs. Is the source for the firmware blob for iwn (which is in GE

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-29 Thread Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 10:26, Kevin Oberman wrote: … > But I thought that all modern wireless interfaces and many others load blobs. > Is the source for the firmware blob for iwn (which is in GENERIC) available? There’s a piece that’s open sourced that a BSD developer has written, bu

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) < yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 29, 2017, at 02:46, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > … > > > Is that binary blob the reason why rsu is not in GENERIC? > > > > I use rsu for Hiro H50191 USB wireless adapter. > > Yup. > But I thought

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-29 Thread Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 02:46, Thomas Mueller wrote: … > Is that binary blob the reason why rsu is not in GENERIC? > > I use rsu for Hiro H50191 USB wireless adapter. Yup. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ngie Cooper: > > On Oct 28, 2017, at 18:09, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > I have an Intel NUC that uses an Intel 8260 wireless driver. This works > > flawlessly if I load the module if_iwm via the loader or the rc.conf > > kld_list directive. > > Do we know if the iwm driver not being in GENERI

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-28 Thread Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> On Oct 28, 2017, at 18:09, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > I have an Intel NUC that uses an Intel 8260 wireless driver. This works > flawlessly if I load the module if_iwm via the loader or the rc.conf > kld_list directive. > > Do we know if the iwm driver not being in GENERIC is an oversight or on

iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-28 Thread Gordon Tetlow
I have an Intel NUC that uses an Intel 8260 wireless driver. This works flawlessly if I load the module if_iwm via the loader or the rc.conf kld_list directive. Do we know if the iwm driver not being in GENERIC is an oversight or on purpose? I couldn't find anything in the list history. Gordon __