Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759401AbYGDOjs (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:39:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754642AbYGDOji (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:39:38 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46869 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753698AbYGDOjh (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:39:37 -0400 Message-ID: <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:39:30 +0200 From: Hannes Reinecke User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Theodore Tso , David Woodhouse , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , David Miller , hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" References: <1215093175.10393.567.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703173040.GB30506@mit.edu> <1215111362.10393.651.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703.162120.206258339.davem@davemloft.net> <486D6DDB.4010205@infradead.org> <87ej6armez.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <1215177044.10393.743.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2260.5050503@garzik.org> <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1443 Lines: 40 Hi Takashi, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400, > Theodore Tso wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >>> That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern >>> driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules is >>> _modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_ >>> modules, or on firmware. >>> >>> The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module >>> dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now. >> FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with >> firmware for modules correctly. > > Neither SUSE's mkinitrd. > (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...) > ??? Firmware loading is just a matter of copying the file at the correct location (ie /lib/firmware) and with the name the fw loader expects. mkinitrd should do it correctly. But I wasn't aware that the tg3 has external firmware, so I doubt we have any rpm for it. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N?rnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N?rnberg) -- 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/