Why not do what FreeBSD does and have the f/w be a kld that you can
unload once you're done with it? It seems to me that this is a bit
cleaner than an alternate mechanism.

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:30:49AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 
>  > Well, I actually want the loader itself in the kernel, I just want the files
>  > outside the kernel.  I could live with a loader outside the kernel, but then
>  > we need a mechanism to execute programs as devices are hot plugged.
> 
> Ah, I see.  So, maybe a sysctl'able path that defaults to
> /usr/libdata/microcode/ or something like that?
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
>