Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:25:54 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" |
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O > Further, all current kernel build and test etc. scripts are unaware of > 'make firmware_install', and it is unfair to everybody to force a > flag-day build process change on people, just to keep their drivers in > the same working state today as it was yesterday.
IMHO we want firmware built in as the default for the moment. If the firmware model makes sense (as I think it does) then the distributions will catch up, turn it on and sort out the default behaviour - exactly as they did all those years ago with modules, more recently with "use an initrd" and so on.
> as "making no sense". All these are real world examples where users > FOLLOWING THEIR NORMAL, PROSCRIBED KERNEL PROCESSES will produce
I hope you mean "prescribed" ;)
> The only valid assumption here is to assume that the user is /unaware/ > of these new steps they must take in order to continue to have a working > system.
To a large extent not the user but their distro - consider "make install"
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