From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752992AbZAKWDa (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:03:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751249AbZAKWDS (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:03:18 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:46774 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193AbZAKWDR (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:03:17 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) From: David Woodhouse To: David Miller Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090111.133929.57600645.davem@davemloft.net> References: <43805.1231672258@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20090111.040842.86784676.davem@davemloft.net> <1231676698.25018.147.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090111.133929.57600645.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:02:27 +0000 Message-Id: <1231711347.25018.658.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 (2.24.2-2.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- dwmw2