Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
 (-git7 is ok)
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 13:39 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
> For example, for mounting an NFS root using that device.... Oh, will I
> need an initramfs for that once you pull the firmware-in-kernel
> option?

Of course, we've been talking for ages about pulling the dhcp and
nfsroot hacks from the kernel and requiring an initrd for that _anyway_,
but that's a different issue...

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation

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