Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755284AbYGDVfv (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:35:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751069AbYGDVfk (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:35:40 -0400 Received: from relay04.mail-hub.dodo.com.au ([123.2.6.239]:48680 "EHLO relay04.mail-hub.dodo.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751781AbYGDVfj (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:35:39 -0400 From: Grant Coady To: David Woodhouse Cc: Hannes Reinecke , 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 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:34:16 +1000 Organization: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ Reply-To: Grant Coady Message-ID: <9l5t64tlov332uf2vfqvop9hh6ctvh067v@4ax.com> References: <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> <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 24 On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:37 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >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... Oh come on now -- not a case of too hard, it's a case of breaking _all_ existing kernel build scripts. Grant. -- 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/