Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753929AbZAKT1W (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:27:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752043AbZAKT1E (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:27:04 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:41458 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751544AbZAKT1D (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:27:03 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) From: David Woodhouse To: Alessandro Suardi Cc: David Miller , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <5a4c581d0901111124p753e0436q5dc3f4645e481c8b@mail.gmail.com> References: <5a4c581d0901090930j5d4760b0x730b5609fa2b5614@mail.gmail.com> <20090109.140422.60087297.davem@davemloft.net> <43805.1231672258@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20090111.040842.86784676.davem@davemloft.net> <1231676698.25018.147.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <1231678799.25018.195.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <5a4c581d0901110842i5520cea1uff89d5772d0f3b6e@mail.gmail.com> <1231692789.25018.415.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <5a4c581d0901111124p753e0436q5dc3f4645e481c8b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:26:42 +0000 Message-Id: <1231702002.25018.482.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 (2.24.2-2.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.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: 807 Lines: 19 On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 20:24 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > However, with the combination of in-kernel tg3 and > CONFIG_IN_KERNEL_FIRMWARE=n there is at least a 30" delay > during boot while waiting for the firmware request (which will fail). Hm, ideally it should fail fast if the root file system isn't yet mounted. I thought we'd seen and fixed a 'long delay' problem already. I'll take another look. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation -- 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/