From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, alessandro.suardi@gmail.com,
jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:02:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231711347.25018.658.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090111.133929.57600645.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 13:39 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> For example, for mounting an NFS root using that device.... Oh, will I
> need an initramfs for that once you pull the firmware-in-kernel
> option?
The option to build arbitrary firmware into your kernel is never going
to be pulled. You can do nfsroot on your myri10ge today, without initrd,
even though the firmware is distributed separately from the kernel. That
doesn't prevent you from building it _in_ to your kernel, if you choose
to.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-08 4:03 ` 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-08 6:12 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-08 20:33 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-08 20:53 ` David Miller
2009-01-09 17:30 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-09 22:04 ` David Miller
2009-01-09 22:29 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-11 11:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 12:08 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 12:24 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 12:59 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 16:42 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-11 16:53 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 19:24 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-11 19:26 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 16:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 16:56 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 21:49 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 22:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 22:46 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 21:41 ` David Miller
2009-01-12 0:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-12 1:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-12 8:13 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-13 4:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 5:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 21:39 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 22:02 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2009-01-11 22:05 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 22:41 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-13 6:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-11 22:15 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 22:19 ` David Miller
2009-01-13 18:39 ` Matt Carlson
2009-01-13 20:27 ` David Miller
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