From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:08:42 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090111.040842.86784676.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43805.1231672258@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:10:58 -0500
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:04:22 PST, David Miller said:
> > From: "Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:30:40 +0100
> >
> > > Clearly the requirement changed in -git8, AFAICS.
> >
> > Because -git8 is where the firmware requirement got added.
> >
> > If you build the TG3 driver statically into your kernel,
> > the only way to get the firmware properly loaded is to
> > enable that CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option.
>
> Maybe this is one of those cases where we actually do want a SELECT?
>
> select FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL if TIGON3=y
>
> or similar?
I have no idea how this is intended to work, David will
know.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 12:08 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 [this message]
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
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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