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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
	tytso@mit.edu, 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: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:57:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080708.015701.249196626.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080708073637.32037c76@the-village.bc.nu>

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:36:37 +0100

> > I can only see it being about separation, pure and simple.
> 
> Separation - of firmware that can be paged from code that cannot.

It can't be paged from the drivers we're talking about,
no matter how hard you try.

Every chip reset needs the firmware around so it can be
reloaded into the card.

This applies to tg3, bnx2, bnx2x, etc. etc. etc.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-08  8:57 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 [this message]
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
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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