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Authored by bz on Jun 12 2025, 3:11 PM.
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Summary

Despite being discouraged in the man page already, people are trying
to load the driver(s) from loader. Now that the drivers are on
module_blacklist="" simply state that it is not possible.
If someone wants anyway they can figure out how to remove it from there,
load the driver, and loader the firmware file(s) upfront.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation (iwlwifi)
MFC after: 3 days
PR: 287480

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bz requested review of this revision.Jun 12 2025, 3:11 PM

In case https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50817 goes in we should actually change this to say "it is not possible to load the driver from .Xr loader 8 ." and be done with it.

bz retitled this revision from iwlwifi.4/rtw88.4/rtw89.4: add note about firmware and loader to iwlwifi.4/rtw88.4/rtw89.4: adjust note about loading from loader.Jun 12 2025, 3:28 PM
bz edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)

adjust to say not possible to load from loader

pauamma_gundo.com added inline comments.
share/man/man4/rtw88.4
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While there.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 12 2025, 4:49 PM
bz marked an inline comment as done.Jun 13 2025, 2:55 PM