iwm: Stop shipping firmware as kernel module

[manu]

Summary

Since we can load raw firmware start shipping them as is.
This also remove the uuencode format that don't add any value.
For pkgbase users they are now in the FreeBSD-firmware-iwm package.

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[cy]

This would be welcome.

[adrian]

oh neat, iwm can load the firmware directly now? yes please.

[manu]

In D48057#1095291, @adrian wrote:

oh neat, iwm can load the firmware directly now? yes please.

Yes this just work for me, it tries loading the .ko first I think but I'll have a look at this before committing this (and hopefully will have a patch for that).

[manu]

Garbage collect the old firmwares.

[lwhsu]

Will we (or how about directly) move them to wifi-firmware- ports?

[manu]

In D48057#1095665, @lwhsu wrote:

Will we (or how about directly) move them to wifi-firmware- ports?

That's not my plan no, since we're moving toward pkgbase users will have a way to install them or not, moving them to ports gives us nothing.

[cy]

In D48057#1095687, @manu wrote:

In D48057#1095665, @lwhsu wrote:

Will we (or how about directly) move them to wifi-firmware- ports?

That's not my plan no, since we're moving toward pkgbase users will have a way to install them or not, moving them to ports gives us nothing.

How will buildworld users install the firmware then?

[jrtc27]

In D48057#1095862, @cy wrote:

In D48057#1095687, @manu wrote:

In D48057#1095665, @lwhsu wrote:

Will we (or how about directly) move them to wifi-firmware- ports?

That's not my plan no, since we're moving toward pkgbase users will have a way to install them or not, moving them to ports gives us nothing.

How will buildworld users install the firmware then?

installworld (moved from installkernel as it's no longer per-kernel)

[manu]

In D48057#1095863, @jrtc27 wrote:

In D48057#1095862, @cy wrote:

In D48057#1095687, @manu wrote:

In D48057#1095665, @lwhsu wrote:

Will we (or how about directly) move them to wifi-firmware- ports?

That's not my plan no, since we're moving toward pkgbase users will have a way to install them or not, moving them to ports gives us nothing.

How will buildworld users install the firmware then?

installworld (moved from installkernel as it's no longer per-kernel)

Correct, maybe if we start shipping a lot of raw firmware we could add a installfirmware (that would be part of installworld or not) but for now I don't see the point.