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: References: <20080703020236.adaa51fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080703205548.D6E5.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <486CC440.9030909@garzik.org> <1215177471.10393.753.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:28:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1215178112.10393.765.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Hugh Dickins , Jeff Garzik , KOSAKI Motohiro , mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:26 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Ah I see. I thought you implemented the built-in firmware even for > modules, but apparently it's not. It isn't really necessary. If you can load modules, then you have userspace. And if you have userspace, you can load firmware too. > Is mkinitrd clever enough to put all needed firmware files to initrd > automatically? Otherwise this can still break the existing setup... Yes, it's had to be clever enough for that for a long time anyway -- most modern drivers have _only_ the 'request_firmware()' option and never gave you the choice of building it in. I'm just updating some of the older drivers to catch up. -- 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