Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Coady <> | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" | Date | Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:34:16 +1000 |
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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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