linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)

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Message-Id: <20090111.140559.126980927.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:05:59 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, alessandro.suardi@...il.com,
	jaswinderlinux@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
 (-git7 is ok)

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:02:27 +0000

> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 13:39 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > For example, for mounting an NFS root using that device.... Oh, will I
> > need an initramfs for that once you pull the firmware-in-kernel
> > option?
> 
> The option to build arbitrary firmware into your kernel is never going
> to be pulled. You can do nfsroot on your myri10ge today, without initrd,
> even though the firmware is distributed separately from the kernel. That
> doesn't prevent you from building it _in_ to your kernel, if you choose
> to.

So what used to work out of the box by typing make now
will have all kinds of strange depencies, right?

This is a regression, no matter how you spin it, in my
book.
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