tigon tg3 firmware missing

Hello,
My network driver does not crash like some have reported.
I did an internet search for this and found that it is due to the firmware in kernel not being set.
Isn't there a way for loading of the tg3 firmware without it needing to be builtin to the kernel?
Please CC.

Thanks, David

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