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    SubjectRe: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
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    On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:37 +0100, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

    >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...

    Oh come on now -- not a case of too hard, it's a case of breaking _all_
    existing kernel build scripts.

    Grant.


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