Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756823AbYGFKDX (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:03:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753098AbYGFKDH (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:03:07 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:34405 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752745AbYGFKDD (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:03:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:02:30 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Woodhouse Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Olivier Galibert , Takashi Iwai , Hannes Reinecke , Theodore Tso , Jeff Garzik , 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: <20080706100230.GA21160@infradead.org> References: <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704231322.GA4410@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20080705105317.GA44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <486F596C.8050109@firstfloor.org> <20080705120221.GC44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <486F6494.8020108@firstfloor.org> <1215260166.10393.816.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080705171316.GA3615@infradead.org> <1215291312.3189.88.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1215291312.3189.88.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: 994 Lines: 24 On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:55:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > That's unfortunately not true. There are a lot of drivers that rely > > on specific firmware versions. > > Do you have examples of such? The worst examples are aic7xx/aic79xx and the symbios family of drivers where the firmware / driver interface is entirely defined by the driver. But as we have opensource firmware for these and build it as part of the kernel build I suspect you don't want to convert them to external firmware either. aic94xx has a very similar firmware to aic7xx/aic79xx but it's only available as blob. We've alredy required specific firmware versions there. b43 has two totally different firmware major revisions that even require different drivers. -- 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/