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: <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> 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> <1215177044.10393.743.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2260.5050503@garzik.org> <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Takashi Iwai , Theodore Tso , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , David Miller , 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 16:39 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Firmware loading is just a matter of copying the file at the correct > location (ie /lib/firmware) and with the name the fw loader expects. > mkinitrd should do it correctly. > But I wasn't aware that the tg3 has external firmware, so I doubt > we have any rpm for it. It doesn't yet; that patch is in linux-next. The firmware is shipped as part of the kernel source tree, and you currently need to run 'make firmware_install' to put it in /lib/firmware, although we're looking at making that easier because apparently having to run 'make firmware_install' is too hard... -- 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