Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:37 +0100 |
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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
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