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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:39:30 +0200
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Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
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To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Hi Takashi,

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400,
> Theodore Tso wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern
>>> driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules=
 is
>>> _modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_
>>> modules, or on firmware.=20
>>>
>>> The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-modu=
le
>>> dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now.
>> FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with
>> firmware for modules correctly. =20
>=20
> Neither SUSE's mkinitrd.
> (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...)
>=20
???

=46irmware loading is just a matter of copying the file at the correct
location (ie /lib/firmware) and with the name the fw loader expects.
mkinitrd should do it correctly.
But I wasn't aware that the tg3 has external firmware, so I doubt
we have any rpm for it.

Cheers,

Hannes
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