From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" References: <486CC440.9030909@garzik.org> <486CCFED.7010308@garzik.org> <20080703.133428.22854563.davem@davemloft.net> <1215118476.10393.692.camel@pmac.infradead.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:43:54 -0300 In-Reply-To: <1215118476.10393.692.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (David Woodhouse's message of "Thu\, 03 Jul 2008 21\:54\:36 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Woodhouse Cc: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, 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 Jul 3, 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > Now, can someone _please_ give me a straight response to the allegation > that the TSO firmware on the tg3 is _optional_ anyway, and that it can > work without it? FTR, I got two reports from BLAG users, through Jeff Moe, that tg3 worked fine with linux-libre, in spite of the complete absence of tg3 firmware in there. I don't have any specific details about the tg3 hardware in question. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member A!SA(C) Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- 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