From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
To: Denis Joseph Barrow <D.Barow@option.com>
Cc: Linux netdev Mailing list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: possible problem with tg3.c not loading firmware
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:13:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496CA174.1030006@hartkopp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496C9F4D.7080101@option.com>
Denis Joseph Barrow wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running ubuntu hardy heron 8.0.4.
> my Ethernet controller is a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
>
> On linux-2.6.28-rc6 for the Tigon 3 driver there doesnt appear to be a seperate firmware file.
> on linux-2.6.29-rc1 there is a tg3_tso5.bin.ihex.
> There appears to be teething problems in getting the firmware file loaded on 2.6.29-rc1.
>
> From the dmesg attached the firmware doesn't appear to be loaded on first boot.
> When I explicitly rmmod & modprobe the tg3 module it then works.
>
>
Hi Denis,
it's a know regression, see:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123182747323724&w=2
Please use CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL for now to be able to work again.
Regards,
Oliver
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2009-01-13 14:03 possible problem with tg3.c not loading firmware Denis Joseph Barrow
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