From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:39:30 +0200 From: Hannes Reinecke MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Theodore Tso , David Woodhouse , 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: Hi Takashi, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400, > Theodore Tso wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >>> That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern >>> driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules is >>> _modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_ >>> modules, or on firmware. >>> >>> The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module >>> dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now. >> FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with >> firmware for modules correctly. > > Neither SUSE's mkinitrd. > (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...) > ??? 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. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nurnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nurnberg) -- 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