Re: e100/netconsole: Failed to load firmware (Re: linux-next: Tree for November 3)

Alexander Beregalov
2008-11-03T16:42:04Z

2008/11/3 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 19:00 +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
>
> OK, so you didn't include the E100 firmware in the kernel, so it only
> actually manages to bring up the E100 after it's mounted the root file
> system, not in time for the console?
>
> If you set CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, does it work?
Oh, I forget this option, sorry.

Yes, it works, thanks.
>
> I think that's fairly much expected behaviour. I wonder if there's a way
> we could make it slightly more intuitive though.