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mjacob
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svn:date
V 27
2000-07-04T02:20:30.000000Z
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V 913
MFC (1.47): Change startup locking. Use new isp_handle_index function
for indexing off of handles to get dma maps.

MFC (1.46): Clean up firmware load issues and remove darn near all config
options.  Force alphas to prefer mem mapping as the default.

Basically, we have a pointer to a function which we can call which will
return us a pointer to firmware for the card we have. We call this function
(if it's non-NULL) with the address of our mdvec f/w pointer.

The way this works is that if ispfw (as a module or a static) is loaded,
it initializes the pointer in isp_pci, so we can call into to it to fetch
a pointer to a f/w set.

If ispfw is MOD_UNLOADed, it's retained a pointer to our mdvec f/w pointers,
which then get zeroed out so we don't have any references to data that's
now gone from kernel memory. Removing the f/w saves ~360KBytes.

Alas, there is no autounload mechanism that works for is here.

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