netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/24] bnx2x: New FW and support for 578xx

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:55:17 +0300
From:	"Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>
To:	"Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Vladislav Zolotarov" <vladz@...adcom.com>,
	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	"Bhanu (Venkata Bhanu Prakash) Gollapudi" <bprakash@...adcom.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Dmitry Kravkov" <dmitry@...adcom.com>,
	"Yaniv Rosner" <yaniv.rosner@...adcom.com>,
	"dwmw2@...radead.org" <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/24] bnx2x: New FW and support for 578xx

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 02:48 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 11:54 -0400, David Miller a écrit :
> > From: "Vlad Zolotarov" <vladz@...adcom.com>
> > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:32:31 +0300
> > 
> > > We also send the new FW files to David Woodhouse. It's the first time we
> > > submit to the linux-firmware git so I hope we don't mess the things up: we
> > > DO NOT patch firmware/WHENCE and firmware/Makefile files in our net-next
> > > patches and we patch the WHENCE file in the linux-firmware patch. Dave,
> > > pls., confirm if it's a correct procedure.
> > > 
> > > If it is, pls., note that the bnx2x driver will compile but won't work
> > > until u integrate the new FW into the kernel tree.
> > 
> > David Woodhouse, what do you think we should do here?
> > 
> > I'm inclined to integrate the firmware into net-next-2.6 since this
> > is the only way to keep the driver working consistently.
> > 
> > Otherwise people won't be able to git bisect properly, and that sucks.
> 
> 
> Hmm, I probably missed something obvious, but my dev machine (one HPG6
> blade in a distant datacenter) fails to init its bnx2x interfaces with
> current net-next-2.6
> 
> Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.0.23.0.fw

You are missing the FW git from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git

You need to get it separately since the FW is not part of the kernel git
now.

Regards,
Eilon




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