Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

[Hannes Reinecke]

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. 
> > >
> > > The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module
> > > 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.  
>
> Neither SUSE's mkinitrd.
> (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...)
???

Firmware 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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