From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <87ej6armez.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1215093175.10393.567.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703173040.GB30506@mit.edu> <1215111362.10393.651.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703.162120.206258339.davem@davemloft.net> <486D6DDB.4010205@infradead.org> <87ej6armez.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:10:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1215177044.10393.743.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Miller , tytso@mit.edu, jeff@garzik.org, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:09 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > David Woodhouse writes: > > > > I'll look at making the requirement for 'make firmware_install' more > > obvious, or even making it happen automatically as part of > > 'modules_install'. > > Perhaps I didn't pay enough attention, but how are "only > boot bzImage without initrd or modules" setups supposed to work now > for those drivers? My testing setup relies on that heavily. That will continue to work just fine. > Will the firmware automatically end up in initramfs and be included > in the bzImage and loaded at the right point? No, not even in the initramfs. It's built _right_ into the static kernel image, and request_firmware() finds it there without even having to call out to userspace at all. http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git?a=commitdiff;h=81d4e79a -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org