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

Alan Cox
2008-07-03T22:25:54Z

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> Further, all current kernel build and test etc. scripts are unaware of
> 'make firmware_install', and it is unfair to everybody to force a
> flag-day build process change on people, just to keep their drivers in
> the same working state today as it was yesterday.

IMHO we want firmware built in as the default for the moment. If the
firmware model makes sense (as I think it does) then the distributions
will catch up, turn it on and sort out the default behaviour - exactly as
they did all those years ago with modules, more recently with "use an
initrd" and so on.

> as "making no sense". All these are real world examples where users
> FOLLOWING THEIR NORMAL, PROSCRIBED KERNEL PROCESSES will produce

I hope you mean "prescribed" ;)

> The only valid assumption here is to assume that the user is /unaware/
> of these new steps they must take in order to continue to have a working
> system.

To a large extent not the user but their distro - consider "make install"