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I wonder if it's downloaded after installation, like nonfree codecs in many Linux distros

Yes. The firmware blobs get downloaded at the end of the install via `fw_update`.

Specifically in this script https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/distrib/miniroot/...

Just look for `fw_update`

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