On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 05:27:56PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > Not true. That's why we have initrd and ramdisks etc. > > They don't currently seem to work for compiled in drivers ... we have > the same issue with drivers that actually need firmware (like aic94xx or > qla2xxx): no-one seems to have figured out how to provide it for them; > it seems the device is already initialised and has failed to find its > firmware before the initrd/initramfs is running. WorksForMe ... or it did a few months ago. I can re-test it with a modern kernel ... wonder which machine I had that needed it ... -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
