Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758462AbYGDOnT (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754486AbYGDOnB (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:43:01 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:43646 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754008AbYGDOnA (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:43:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" From: David Woodhouse To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Takashi Iwai , Theodore Tso , 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 In-Reply-To: <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> 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> <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1215182557.10393.808.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: 890 Lines: 21 On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:39 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > 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. It doesn't yet; that patch is in linux-next. The firmware is shipped as part of the kernel source tree, and you currently need to run 'make firmware_install' to put it in /lib/firmware, although we're looking at making that easier because apparently having to run 'make firmware_install' is too hard... -- 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/