Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

David Woodhouse
2008-07-06T20:56:54Z

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> >> if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to
> >> userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic
> >> kernel or the module that contains the driver)
> >
> > You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel.
>
> right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but
> not all of it.

The useful half. If you have userspace to load modules, you have
userspace to load firmware too.

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