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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:19:35 -0800 (PST)
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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:15:54 +0000

> 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?
> 
> Of course, we've been talking for ages about pulling the dhcp and
> nfsroot hacks from the kernel and requiring an initrd for that _anyway_,
> but that's a different issue...

It's not there now, so in the mean time....