From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753592AbZAKWGR (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:06:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752075AbZAKWF7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:05:59 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50293 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193AbZAKWF6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:05:58 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:05:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090111.140559.126980927.davem@davemloft.net> To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1231711347.25018.658.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <1231676698.25018.147.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090111.133929.57600645.davem@davemloft.net> <1231711347.25018.658.camel@macbook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Woodhouse 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.