The following reply was made to PR kern/32342; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32342: OpenBSD firmware loading framework
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:49:38 +0000

 On 2005.12.19 14:20:53 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
 | 
 | - Tries to read it all in at once (into a wired kernel buffer  
 | allocated from kmem_map).  It would be better to allow a driver to  
 | read in pieces at a time, potentially into pageable memory.
 
 Is there any device driver in our tree that tries to load the firmware
 in pieces at a time ? I know this could change in the future.
 
 | 
 | - It should be possible to set the directory search path via sysctl,  
 | rather than hard-coding "/etc/firmware".
 
 I agree, but that's easy to change as Christos said.
 
 		-- Rui Paulo