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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:52:16 -0700
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, jeff@...zik.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
andi@...stfloor.org, tytso@....edu, 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"
David Miller wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:27:53 +0100
>
>
>>There are good sound reasons for having a firmware tree, the fact tg3 is
>>a bit of dinosaur in this area doesn't make it wrong.
>
>
> And bnx2, and bnx2x, and e100's ucode (hope David caught that one!).
>
> It isn't just tg3.
Ah bnx2 - it may be "fixed" now, but trying to install Debian Lenny on a
system with "core" bnx2 driven interfaces has been "fun" for a while now
thanks to the firmware being exiled.
rick jones
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