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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:55:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > That's unfortunately not true.  There are a lot of drivers that rely
> > on specific firmware versions.
> 
> Do you have examples of such?

The worst examples are aic7xx/aic79xx and the symbios family of drivers
where the firmware / driver interface is entirely defined by the driver.
But as we have opensource firmware for these and build it as part of
the kernel build I suspect you don't want to convert them to external
firmware either.

aic94xx has a very similar firmware to aic7xx/aic79xx but it's only
available as blob.  We've alredy required specific firmware versions
there.

b43 has two totally different firmware major revisions that even require
different drivers.

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