linux-kernel - Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware...

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Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:41:45 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jonathan@...masters.org,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>, greg@...ah.com,
	arjan@...radead.org
Subject: Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New
	World Order firmware...

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:21 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:34 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > Actually, FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL *did* make a difference - it busticated the tg3
> > driver and while fighting with the 'firmware: requesting tigon/tg3_tso.bin'
> > errors I had just inflicted on myself, 
> 
> Just to confirm: that works either with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y or
> if you run 'make INSTALL_FW_PATH=/lib/firmware firmware_install', right?
> 
> I'm not entirely sure whether we should make 'make firmware_install'
> install to /lib/firmware by default, or to $(O)/usr/lib/firmware as it
> does at the moment.
> 
> The former is consistent with 'make modules_install', and the latter is
> consistent with 'make headers_install'. Both of which have good reasons
> for being the way they are.

Headers are not needed for bootup, firmware might be. :) But /usr might
be on a different partition/disk/storage at the time we need it, right?

I would say /usr/lib/firmware should not even exist, udev does
intentionally not even look there.

Thanks,
Kay

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