From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alessandro Suardi" Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:30:40 +0100 Message-ID: <5a4c581d0901090930j5d4760b0x730b5609fa2b5614@mail.gmail.com> References: <5a4c581d0901070624t6e769966t6b034b14d4732bd@mail.gmail.com> <3f9a31f40901072212x41e405fh7e36f6adb927814b@mail.gmail.com> <5a4c581d0901081233y6b546167sbe3ed9f2ea37f1f9@mail.gmail.com> <20090108.125331.03608787.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org To: "David Miller" Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:38349 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752708AbZAIRan (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:30:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090108.125331.03608787.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:53 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: "Alessandro Suardi" > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:33:35 +0100 > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput >> wrote: >> > Hello alessandro, >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Alessandro Suardi >> > 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 "Sun keeps rising in the west / I keep on waking fully confused" (The Replacements, "Within Your Reach")