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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:02:30 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hugh@...itas.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, mchan@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:55:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > That's unfortunately not true. There are a lot of drivers that rely > > on specific firmware versions. > > Do you have examples of such? The worst examples are aic7xx/aic79xx and the symbios family of drivers where the firmware / driver interface is entirely defined by the driver. But as we have opensource firmware for these and build it as part of the kernel build I suspect you don't want to convert them to external firmware either. aic94xx has a very similar firmware to aic7xx/aic79xx but it's only available as blob. We've alredy required specific firmware versions there. b43 has two totally different firmware major revisions that even require different drivers. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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