Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:49:37 -0800 (PST)
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To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
 (-git7 is ok)
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:48:22 -0500

> One unanswered question:  What do we expect the system to do if they have this
> patch, TIGON3=y, FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=n, and configure a netconsole for boot
> messages?  I'm *hoping* the answer is "the netconsole doesn't come up at boot,
> but can be re-enabled via the /sys/kernel/config/netconsole interface after
> you've done an 'ifconfig eth0 up' or similar, or do a 'modprobe netconsole'.
> 
> Those seem like reasonable semantics to me - anybody got a different opinion?

Even better, how about nfsroot?  There is no "later", either you
can mount to root filesystem or you fail.
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