Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:08:00 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 07:34 +1000, Grant Coady wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:37 +0100, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > >On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:39 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > >> 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. > > > >It doesn't yet; that patch is in linux-next. The firmware is shipped as > >part of the kernel source tree, and you currently need to run 'make > >firmware_install' to put it in /lib/firmware, although we're looking at > >making that easier because apparently having to run 'make > >firmware_install' is too hard... > > Oh come on now -- not a case of too hard, it's a case of breaking _all_ > existing kernel build scripts.
It's done as part of 'make modules_install' now anyway.
-- dwmw2
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