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