From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:53:17 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" Message-ID: <20080705105317.GA44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> References: <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> <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704231322.GA4410@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: David Woodhouse , Hannes Reinecke , 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 Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:41:56AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Yes, it will, if the firmware blobs are packed into the kernel > package. In a long term, we can put firmware files into a separate, > architecture independent noarch package, though. This will save the > total package size, too. That could be interestingly hard, actually. Right now the kernel package is one of these packages designed so that multiple versions can be installed together. When the version of one of the firmwares changes, the firmware package will have to be updated. But will it keep the previous version? If it doesn't, the possibly still installed older kernels won't work anymore. If it does, it will accumulate a lot of files over time... OG. -- 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