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kmodloader plan: rewrite for the three-path architecture
Reflects what actually shipped, not the original design. Highlights: - Drops the IOPCIMatch personality plist architecture entirely. Phase 1a-c shipped that approach; Phase 1d ripped it out in favor of devmatch + linker.hints. Plan now describes the three-path scan (devmatch / GPU PCI / kern.vm_guest) as the architecture. - Documents the AMD radeonkms-vs-amdgpu split via the upstream-frozen drm_pciids.h list (RadeonPCIIDs.h) — vendored once, no curation. - Adds the hypervisor scan path (vbox / vmware) with the matching pkglist additions and kern.vm_guest probe. - Phase 1d/1e/1f/1g marked DONE with what each commit actually delivered; Phase 2 (hot-plug via /dev/devctl) marked PLANNED. - New Phase 3: documents the firmware-from-/boot/firmware/ namei issue surfaced by bench testing on the Skylake laptop. Kernel- thread context doesn't follow the chroot; firmware files visible to userspace aren't visible to firmware_get(). Out of scope for kmodloader but tracked here as the next-blocker for fully-automatic GPU + WiFi. - Phase 5 captures the upstream-PR option: get drm-kmod / nvidia-drm- kmod to declare MODULE_PNP_INFO so devmatch handles them and Path 2 collapses or disappears. - Open questions trimmed: most original ones resolved by the three-path pivot. Remaining ones around firmware-namei and Phase 2 parsing are now explicit. Companion to the Phase 1d-1g work in pkgdemon/freebsd-launchd commits 4c64f18, 5a49c21, cc9fb53, 4c1c04b.
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