Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:05:59 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) | From | David Miller <> |
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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:02:27 +0000
> 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.
So what used to work out of the box by typing make now will have all kinds of strange depencies, right?
This is a regression, no matter how you spin it, in my book.
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