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+.\" $NetBSD: firmload.9,v 1.10 2018/03/16 02:35:56 sevan Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2006 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
+.\" by Jason R. Thorpe.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\"
+.Dd March 16, 2018
+.Dt FIRMLOAD 9
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm firmload
+.Nd Firmware loader API for device drivers
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In dev/firmload.h
+.\"
+.Ft int
+.Fn "firmware_open" "const char *drvname" "const char *imgname" \
+"firmware_handle_t *fhp"
+.\"
+.Ft int
+.Fn "firmware_close" "firmware_handle_t fh"
+.\"
+.Ft off_t
+.Fn "firmware_get_size" "firmware_handle_t fh"
+.\"
+.Ft int
+.Fn "firmware_read" "firmware_handle_t fh" "off_t offset" "void *buf" \
+"size_t size"
+.\"
+.Ft void *
+.Fn "firmware_malloc" "size_t size"
+.\"
+.Ft void
+.Fn "firmware_free" "void *buf" "size_t size"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+provides a simple and convenient API for device drivers to load firmware
+images from files residing in the file system that are necessary for the
+devices that they control.
+Firmware images reside in sub-directories, one for each driver, of a series
+of colon-separated path prefixes specified by the sysctl variable
+.Dv hw.firmware.path .
+.Sh FUNCTIONS
+The following functions are provided by the
+.Nm
+API:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Fn "firmware_open" "drvname" "imgname" "fhp"
+.Pp
+Open the firmware image
+.Fa imgname
+for the driver
+.Fa drvname .
+The path to the firmware image file is constructed by appending the string
+.Dq "/drvname/imgname"
+to each configured path prefix until opening the firmware image file succeeds.
+Upon success,
+.Fn firmware_open
+returns 0 and stores a firmware image handle in the location pointed to by
+.Fa fhp .
+Otherwise, an error code is returned to indicate the reason for failure.
+.It Fn "firmware_close" "fh"
+.Pp
+Close the firmware image file associated with the firmware handle
+.Fa fh .
+Returns 0 upon success or an error code to indicate the reason for failure.
+.It Fn "firmware_get_size" "fh"
+.Pp
+Returns the size of the image file associated with the firmware handle
+.Fa fh .
+.It Fn "firmware_read" "fh" "offset" "buf" "size"
+.Pp
+Reads from the image file associated with the firmware handle
+.Fa fh
+beginning at offset
+.Fa offset
+for length
+.Fa size .
+The firmware image data is placed into the buffer specified by
+.Fa buf .
+Returns 0 upon success or an error code to indicate the reason for failure.
+.It Fn "firmware_malloc" "size"
+.Pp
+Allocates a region of wired kernel memory of size
+.Fa size .
+Note:
+.Fn firmware_malloc
+may block.
+.It Fn "firmware_free" "buf" "size"
+.Pp
+Frees a region of memory previously allocated by
+.Fn firmware_malloc .
+.El
+.Sh FILES
+Default search path for firmware
+.Bl -tag -width /libdata/firmware -compact
+.It Pa /libdata/firmware
+.It Pa /usr/libdata/firmware
+.It Pa /usr/pkg/libdata/firmware
+.It Pa /usr/pkg/libdata
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr autoconf 9 ,
+.Xr malloc 9 ,
+.Xr vnsubr 9
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+framework first appeared in
+.Nx 4.0 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Jason Thorpe Aq Mt thorpej@NetBSD.org