Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756031AbYGIUpr (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:45:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751527AbYGIUpf (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:45:35 -0400 Received: from lsd-gw.ic.unicamp.br ([143.106.7.165]:44365 "EHLO boneca.lsd.ic.unicamp.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750955AbYGIUpe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:45:34 -0400 To: David Woodhouse Cc: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, 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" References: <486CC440.9030909@garzik.org> <486CCFED.7010308@garzik.org> <20080703.133428.22854563.davem@davemloft.net> <1215118476.10393.692.camel@pmac.infradead.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:43:54 -0300 In-Reply-To: <1215118476.10393.692.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (David Woodhouse's message of "Thu\, 03 Jul 2008 21\:54\:36 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 953 Lines: 22 On Jul 3, 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > Now, can someone _please_ give me a straight response to the allegation > that the TSO firmware on the tg3 is _optional_ anyway, and that it can > work without it? FTR, I got two reports from BLAG users, through Jeff Moe, that tg3 worked fine with linux-libre, in spite of the complete absence of tg3 firmware in there. I don't have any specific details about the tg3 hardware in question. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- 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/