Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752663AbZAKLLX (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:11:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751200AbZAKLLJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:11:09 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:51871 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbZAKLLI (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:11:08 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: David Miller Cc: alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:04:22 PST." <20090109.140422.60087297.davem@davemloft.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <5a4c581d0901081233y6b546167sbe3ed9f2ea37f1f9@mail.gmail.com> <20090108.125331.03608787.davem@davemloft.net> <5a4c581d0901090930j5d4760b0x730b5609fa2b5614@mail.gmail.com> <20090109.140422.60087297.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1231672258_4078P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:10:58 -0500 Message-ID: <43805.1231672258@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1202 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_1231672258_4078P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:04:22 PST, David Miller said: > From: "Alessandro Suardi" > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:30:40 +0100 > > > Clearly the requirement changed in -git8, AFAICS. > > Because -git8 is where the firmware requirement got added. > > If you build the TG3 driver statically into your kernel, > the only way to get the firmware properly loaded is to > enable that CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option. Maybe this is one of those cases where we actually do want a SELECT? select FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL if TIGON3=y or similar? --==_Exmh_1231672258_4078P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJadPCcC3lWbTT17ARAq/mAJ9i0L89DnH4b63OSy89fNFJLFyY5ACfW8xy qfn7lWQiu+ANURHa1W5Jbt8= =83EK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1231672258_4078P-- -- 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/