Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754203AbZAKWTr (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:19:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751249AbZAKWTf (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:19:35 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34336 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752130AbZAKWTe (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:19:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:19:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090111.141935.34892950.davem@davemloft.net> To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1231712154.25018.672.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <1231676698.25018.147.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090111.133929.57600645.davem@davemloft.net> <1231712154.25018.672.camel@macbook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 19 From: David Woodhouse Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:15:54 +0000 > 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... It's not there now, so in the mean time.... -- 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/