Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757446AbYGCM2C (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:28:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753349AbYGCM1s (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:27:48 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:43579 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753796AbYGCM1r (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:27:47 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: David Woodhouse Cc: Tigran Aivazian , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jonathan@jonmasters.org, Shaohua Li , greg@kroah.com, Kay Sievers , arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:29 BST." <1215081029.10393.517.camel@pmac.infradead.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <4534.1215048758@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <32146.1215066947@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1215077028.10393.497.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <65663.1215080245@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1215081029.10393.517.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1215084867_4193P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:34:27 -0400 Message-ID: <68763.1215084867@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1571 Lines: 41 --==_Exmh_1215084867_4193P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:29 BST, David Woodhouse said: > > Anyhow, it appears the firmware_request() was just a bullet loaded in the > > chamber waiting for me to pull the trigger 2 years later by setting > > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=n :) > > No, the recent firmware changes haven't modified this. The > FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option makes no difference here. "D'Oh!" -- H. Simpson. "Nevermind" - Emily Litella. 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, I found the 'requesting intel-ucode/060f06' messages as well - and totally failed to notice that the *previous* kernel and initscripts had *all along* been doing a modprobe, which generated 2 requests (one per CPU) which failed, and then the initscript ran microcode_ctl *anyhow*, papering over the two failed requests.. ;) --==_Exmh_1215084867_4193P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFIbLlDcC3lWbTT17ARAhK5AJ9dLSTmQB6x4S8RlxffeBNhyxoOIACePWnr iRQ/MTDKXltt+urrJndMXaY= =MA9I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1215084867_4193P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/