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

Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04T14:44:38Z

At Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:39:30 +0200,
Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>
> Hi Takashi,
>
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400,
> > Theodore Tso wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >>> That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern
> >>> driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules is
> >>> _modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_
> >>> modules, or on firmware.
> >>>
> >>> The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module
> >>> dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now.
> >> FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with
> >> firmware for modules correctly.
> >
> > Neither SUSE's mkinitrd.
> > (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...)
> >
> ???
>
> 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.

OK, then I must have overlooked it in the mkinitrd code.
(Just to be sure - it's about the handling of firmware files in initrd
image, no on root disk.)

> But I wasn't aware that the tg3 has external firmware, so I doubt
> we have any rpm for it.

It's happening in mm and linux-next right now. For tg3 (and any
other) module, no built-in firmware any more.

thanks,

Takashi