Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753417AbYGEKxf (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:53:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751310AbYGEKxY (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:53:24 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:2861 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750959AbYGEKxX (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:53:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:53:17 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Takashi Iwai Cc: David Woodhouse , Hannes Reinecke , 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" Message-ID: <20080705105317.GA44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Takashi Iwai , David Woodhouse , Hannes Reinecke , 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 References: <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> <20080704231322.GA4410@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 21 On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:41:56AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Yes, it will, if the firmware blobs are packed into the kernel > package. In a long term, we can put firmware files into a separate, > architecture independent noarch package, though. This will save the > total package size, too. That could be interestingly hard, actually. Right now the kernel package is one of these packages designed so that multiple versions can be installed together. When the version of one of the firmwares changes, the firmware package will have to be updated. But will it keep the previous version? If it doesn't, the possibly still installed older kernels won't work anymore. If it does, it will accumulate a lot of files over time... OG. -- 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/