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

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 13:39 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> For example, for mounting an NFS root using that device.... Oh, will I
> need an initramfs for that once you pull the firmware-in-kernel
> option?

The option to build arbitrary firmware into your kernel is never going
to be pulled. You can do nfsroot on your myri10ge today, without initrd,
even though the firmware is distributed separately from the kernel. That
doesn't prevent you from building it _in_ to your kernel, if you choose
to.

-- 
dwmw2

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