netdev - Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3

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Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:26:34 +0200
From:	maximilian attems <max@...o.at>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.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 Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:24:03PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > yes i'd call them severly broken.
> > as it is quite easy to pick up the modinfo firmware module output.
> > 
> > their trouble is that they sync initramfs-tools from Debian only
> > once every 2 years or so.
> 
> Well, Takashi just mentioned that SuSE's mkinitrd may not handle
> /lib/firmware correctly either....

i have good news: in intrepid they synced initramfs-tools,
so it is fixed for their upcoming release. as it is fixed
in Debian for Lenny. they went for the /lib/firmware/${version}
choice.

-- 
maks
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