Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758466AbYGDN2y (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:28:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753662AbYGDN2m (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:28:42 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:37652 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752571AbYGDN2l (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:28:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" From: David Woodhouse To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Hugh Dickins , Jeff Garzik , KOSAKI Motohiro , mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20080703020236.adaa51fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080703205548.D6E5.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <486CC440.9030909@garzik.org> <1215177471.10393.753.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:28:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1215178112.10393.765.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 23 On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:26 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Ah I see. I thought you implemented the built-in firmware even for > modules, but apparently it's not. It isn't really necessary. If you can load modules, then you have userspace. And if you have userspace, you can load firmware too. > Is mkinitrd clever enough to put all needed firmware files to initrd > automatically? Otherwise this can still break the existing setup... Yes, it's had to be clever enough for that for a long time anyway -- most modern drivers have _only_ the 'request_firmware()' option and never gave you the choice of building it in. I'm just updating some of the older drivers to catch up. -- dwmw2 -- 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/