Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:53 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:33:35 +0100
>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput
>> <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello alessandro,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Alessandro Suardi
>> > <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Note that I don't have CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, but on
>> >>  the other hand I didn't earlier, either... and yes, CONFIG_MODULES=y.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Please try with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL , is this makes some difference.
>>
>> Yes it does, thank you - 2.6.28-git11 with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
>>  gets my tg3 back to work on boot. Must be a requirement since -git8 then ?
>
> It is if you don't have the tg3 firmware files in your filesystem
> already.

As I mentioned in the original email to LKML about -git8, and in
 the first CC to netdev about -git10, I appear to have these files
 in /lib/firmware/tigon. I save every single .config file I used in the
 last, what, four years ?

.config-2.6.28-git10:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
.config-2.6.28-git11:CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
.config-2.6.28-git2:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
.config-2.6.28-git3:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
.config-2.6.28-git4:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
.config-2.6.28-git5:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
.config-2.6.28-git6:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
.config-2.6.28-git7:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
.config-2.6.28-git8:# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set

-git-2 through -git-7 work
-git8 and -git10 don't work
-git11 works

Clearly the requirement changed in -git8, AFAICS.

thanks,

--alessandro

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