From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <487257D0.2030006@hp.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:52:16 -0700 From: Rick Jones MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" References: <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2818.1060003@garzik.org> <20080704142753.27848ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080704.134329.209642254.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20080704.134329.209642254.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Miller Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jeff@garzik.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, andi@firstfloor.org, tytso@mit.edu, 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: David Miller wrote: > From: Alan Cox > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:27:53 +0100 > > >>There are good sound reasons for having a firmware tree, the fact tg3 is >>a bit of dinosaur in this area doesn't make it wrong. > > > And bnx2, and bnx2x, and e100's ucode (hope David caught that one!). > > It isn't just tg3. Ah bnx2 - it may be "fixed" now, but trying to install Debian Lenny on a system with "core" bnx2 driven interfaces has been "fun" for a while now thanks to the firmware being exiled. rick jones -- 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