From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:52:16 -0700 Message-ID: <487257D0.2030006@hp.com> References: <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2818.1060003@garzik.org> <20080704142753.27848ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080704.134329.209642254.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, 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 To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:46234 "EHLO g1t0028.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753783AbYGGRwX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:52:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080704.134329.209642254.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: > From: Alan Cox > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:27:53 +0100 > > >>There are good sound reasons for having a firmware tree, the fact tg3 is >>a bit of dinosaur in this area doesn't make it wrong. > > > And bnx2, and bnx2x, and e100's ucode (hope David caught that one!). > > It isn't just tg3. Ah bnx2 - it may be "fixed" now, but trying to install Debian Lenny on a system with "core" bnx2 driven interfaces has been "fun" for a while now thanks to the firmware being exiled. rick jones