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Re: firmware



Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> writes:
> On 10/03/2014 10:10, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>   It seems kfreebsd-11 does not want to load the iwlwifi firmware from
>> the "linux" package (talks about firmware being to large). Will this
>> work in the future or do wen need separate firmware packages anyway?
>
> The limit is 100 kiB, but it can be increased.

It's ~600kB. I've increased the limit locally to 1 MiB which gets me
working wifi using the linux firmware package and some symlinks (I
guess -- I'll try to remember checking and seeeing for a mapping between
the paths in feebsd patch and the firmware packages).

> Any idea what's the limit on Linux?

No idea here, sorry

  Christoph


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