Following the example of rtw88 and rtw89 only ship iwlwifi firmware
from ports/packages. Users are asked to run fwget(8) to install the
firmware needed for their system or build it from ports
(see also UPDATING).
This is the end of a long story adding wireless support to fwget(8),
migrating the firmware for multiple branches into ports, splitting them
up into flavors, and updating some install media and the installer to
provide firmware.
The overall amount for new firmware amongst all drivers would have
added more than 100M of binary blobs to src.git for the first import,
ignoring future updates which (along with some duplication between
multiple drivers) was considered too much.
While maintenance within the src tree certainly would have been
easier in the longer term this seems to be the better solution and
I would like to thank everyone who helped along the path to get there.
The iwlwififw.4 man page is to stay (for now) and will likely point
at the appropriate firmware package flavor in the future as well.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Requested by: core (Oct 2022)
MFC after: 3 days