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

Alan Cox
2008-07-07T15:53:33Z

> > And we had the same argument over ten years ago about those evil module
> > things which stopped you just using scp to copy the kernel in one go.
> > Fortunately the nay sayers lost so we have modules.
>
> Broken analogy.
>
> When modules were added, you were given the option to use them, or not.

You can still choose to compile firmware in. Did you read the patches ?