Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752317AbYGEK0x (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750722AbYGEK0m (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:26:42 -0400 Received: from baikonur.stro.at ([213.239.196.228]:57722 "EHLO baikonur.stro.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750793AbYGEK0l (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:26:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:26:34 +0200 From: maximilian attems To: 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" Message-ID: <20080705102633.GA21779@stro.at> Mail-Followup-To: 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 References: <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> <20080704142403.GD7212@baikonur.stro.at> <20080704143634.GC23215@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080704143634.GC23215@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 24 On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:24:03PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > yes i'd call them severly broken. > > as it is quite easy to pick up the modinfo firmware module output. > > > > their trouble is that they sync initramfs-tools from Debian only > > once every 2 years or so. > > Well, Takashi just mentioned that SuSE's mkinitrd may not handle > /lib/firmware correctly either.... i have good news: in intrepid they synced initramfs-tools, so it is fixed for their upcoming release. as it is fixed in Debian for Lenny. they went for the /lib/firmware/${version} choice. -- maks -- 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/