Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

From: maximilian attems <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:26:34 +0200

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:24:03PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > yes i'd call them severly broken.
> > as it is quite easy to pick up the modinfo firmware module output.
> > 
> > their trouble is that they sync initramfs-tools from Debian only
> > once every 2 years or so.
> 
> Well, Takashi just mentioned that SuSE's mkinitrd may not handle
> /lib/firmware correctly either....

i have good news: in intrepid they synced initramfs-tools,
so it is fixed for their upcoming release. as it is fixed
in Debian for Lenny. they went for the /lib/firmware/${version}
choice.

-- 
maks