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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:10:44 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, tytso@....edu, jeff@...zik.org, 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 Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:09 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> writes: > > > > I'll look at making the requirement for 'make firmware_install' more > > obvious, or even making it happen automatically as part of > > 'modules_install'. > > Perhaps I didn't pay enough attention, but how are "only > boot bzImage without initrd or modules" setups supposed to work now > for those drivers? My testing setup relies on that heavily. That will continue to work just fine. > Will the firmware automatically end up in initramfs and be included > in the bzImage and loaded at the right point? No, not even in the initramfs. It's built _right_ into the static kernel image, and request_firmware() finds it there without even having to call out to userspace at all. http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git?a=commitdiff;h=81d4e79a -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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