# Re: \[bug?\] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3\_tso.bin"

- From: David Woodhouse \<dwmw2@infradead.org\>
- Date: 2008-07-04 13:45:51 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2008/07/1120963
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mm/2008/07/1120401/t.md

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On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 09:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> mkinitrd and similar scripts must be updated, so that drivers that 
> worked prior to dwmw2's changes will continue to work after dwmw2's
> changes.

> If you fail to update some script somewhere, then the driver will be 
> copied into the initramfs, but not the firmware, with obvious results.

No, mkinitrd works fine, because a whole boatload of drivers _already_
require it to work that way and have done for a long time.

Either you are severely mistaken, or you are being deliberately
misleading.

-- 
dwmw2

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