From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754723AbZAKVlY (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:41:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752647AbZAKVlM (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:41:12 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38335 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752605AbZAKVlL (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:41:11 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:41:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090111.134112.140046525.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: <1231678799.25018.195.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <20090111.040842.86784676.davem@davemloft.net> <1231676698.25018.147.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <1231678799.25018.195.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 12:59:59 +0000 > So if you build with CONFIG_TIGON3=y, CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=n, you > should see it fail to load the firmware at boot, but then it should load > it successfully when you bring the device up. And you won't be able to mount an NFS root filesystem.