00:19:51 <jbk> would cxgbe be a good example of using firmware files?
00:21:20 <richlowe> ddi_ufm is the way, I believe
00:22:38 <richlowe> I'm not sure how you choose among the drivers using it
00:23:06 <richlowe> I'd guess that and nvme are the most heavily used
00:25:33 <jbk> i don't think that is for reading a (volatile, not NVM) file to write to the device during attach or such
00:26:05 <jbk> i guess technically it'd be more of an opaque blob
00:34:01 <jbk> for E810 (ice) it apparently requires what intel calls a 'dynamic device personalization (DDP)' file that is loaded from the OS during 'initialization' (i.e. attach)... on fbsd, this is apparently done as a separate module (ice_ddp), but based on the readme with it, it seems like the file is redistributable, so instead of trying to wrap it in a module or convert it to a giant .h file, i thoguht there's a way 
00:34:07 <jbk> to read it from the filesystem
00:34:11 <jbk> (apparently the DDP is required for things like RSS)
00:34:37 <jbk> and the card enters a 'safe mode' without it
00:35:07 <jbk> (it seems like most of the other bits in it wouldn't be as useful at this time)
00:36:01 <jbk> (this is also unlike i40e where the card apparently includes a default configuration in it's NVM)
00:49:34 <rmustacc> jbk: Assuming this is a file that basically needs to be read and installed in the hw every boot then yeah, the firmload(9F) bits are what I'd use. The cxgbe examples are fine.
00:49:46 <jbk> ok