Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:28:32 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:26 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Ah I see. I thought you implemented the built-in firmware even for > modules, but apparently it's not.
It isn't really necessary. If you can load modules, then you have userspace. And if you have userspace, you can load firmware too.
> Is mkinitrd clever enough to put all needed firmware files to initrd > automatically? Otherwise this can still break the existing setup...
Yes, it's had to be clever enough for that for a long time anyway -- most modern drivers have _only_ the 'request_firmware()' option and never gave you the choice of building it in. I'm just updating some of the older drivers to catch up.
-- dwmw2
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