From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:02:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080706100230.GA21160@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215291312.3189.88.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:55:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > That's unfortunately not true. There are a lot of drivers that rely
> > on specific firmware versions.
>
> Do you have examples of such?
The worst examples are aic7xx/aic79xx and the symbios family of drivers
where the firmware / driver interface is entirely defined by the driver.
But as we have opensource firmware for these and build it as part of
the kernel build I suspect you don't want to convert them to external
firmware either.
aic94xx has a very similar firmware to aic7xx/aic79xx but it's only
available as blob. We've alredy required specific firmware versions
there.
b43 has two totally different firmware major revisions that even require
different drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-06 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 142+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080703020236.adaa51fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-03 11:59 ` [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-03 12:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 13:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-03 13:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 13:33 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 13:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 13:52 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 17:30 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-03 18:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 19:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-03 19:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 20:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 21:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 21:33 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 21:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 21:43 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 21:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 21:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 22:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 22:25 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-03 23:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 23:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 2:31 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-07-03 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 0:18 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04 1:09 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 1:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04 0:24 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 1:28 ` Grant Coady
2008-07-04 2:42 ` david
2008-07-04 10:07 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 10:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-04 13:10 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:27 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 13:48 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 20:43 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 21:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-06 20:17 ` david
2008-07-06 20:27 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 20:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-06 20:52 ` david
2008-07-06 20:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 21:03 ` david
2008-07-06 21:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-06 22:10 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 23:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-05 6:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 17:52 ` Rick Jones
2008-07-04 13:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-06 23:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 15:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 17:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 18:13 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 18:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 18:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 18:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 19:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 20:48 ` David Miller
2008-07-07 20:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 21:45 ` David Miller
2008-07-07 21:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 21:58 ` David Miller
2008-07-08 6:36 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-08 8:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 14:30 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04 14:37 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 18:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 20:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-05 4:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 20:39 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 14:10 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04 14:23 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 14:39 ` Hannes Reinecke
2008-07-04 14:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 21:34 ` Grant Coady
2008-07-04 22:08 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 23:13 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-04 23:58 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
[not found] ` <20080704235839.GA5649@khazad-dum.debian.net>
2008-07-05 0:51 ` Trent Piepho
2008-07-05 3:52 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-05 6:01 ` Bill Fink
2008-07-05 13:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-05 4:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-05 7:41 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-05 8:50 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 10:53 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-05 11:22 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 12:02 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-05 12:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 12:16 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 12:23 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 12:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 13:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 14:44 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-05 15:10 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 17:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-05 20:55 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 10:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-07-06 10:55 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 11:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-06 12:22 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:44 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 14:24 ` maximilian attems
2008-07-04 14:36 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-05 10:26 ` maximilian attems
2008-07-04 14:31 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 20:37 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 20:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-04 20:43 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 20:52 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 21:05 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 4:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-04 20:51 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 20:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-04 21:12 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 20:53 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 4:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-03 20:34 ` David Miller
2008-07-03 20:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-09 20:43 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-07-04 11:06 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 13:17 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 13:28 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:45 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 14:13 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 6:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 16:10 ` Chuck Lever
2008-07-05 5:49 Jaswinder Singh
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