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Message-ID: <1368166628.3378.46.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:17:08 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Michael D. Setzer II" <msetzerii@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Firmware Support
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 10:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > But yesterday, I got a message from a different user with screen
> > captures that showed failure of loading the firmware below.
> > Actually, one screen shot with the 7.0.23.0 and another with the
> > 7.0.29.0. Wasn't sure, so I had added all three of th 7.0.x group to
> > a test build of my kernels. Is only the latest needed?
> >
> > ./bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.0.23.0.fw
> > ./bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.0.29.0.fw
> > ./bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.0.20.0.fw
>
> If you are supporting multiple versions of the kernel, that need
> different versions of the firmware package, then you need to include
> all of these to handle that properly.
The linux-firmware tree should include them all, hopefully. We don't
intentionally *remove* old stuff, since that would break old kernels.
Eventually we'll want a way for people to filter out firmware which is
only used by old kernels, when they install or package linux-firmware.
But for now you just get everything.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com Intel Corporation
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